From the lab of Nick Nova, K.S.C.

Strawberry
Napalm

A mad scientist's place of chaos. Experiments, writing and evidence, filed roughly in the order they escaped.

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A strawberry in marbled pools of corn syrup, water, and food coloring on white printer paper

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Fragaria × Napalm

Recent dispatches

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2026.10.16

Planetary Sigils For Dummies

Planetary sigils, explained like you're four. Pick a planet, turn letters into numbers, connect the dots. Or let the Oracle do it.

Field Guide4 min

2026.10.16

Sigils, Terms Declared

What a sigil is, how it's supposed to work, seven ways to make one, and Austin Spare's method step by step. The planets are optional.

Field Guide10 min

2026.10.16

Peter J. Carroll, 1953–2026

The chaos magician who took Austin Spare's back-room sorcery and handed it to anybody with a pen. A toast, and how respectably nuts he was.

Tribute7 min

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A close view of the pocket colony: dozens of small green pixel creatures crowding around two buildings, with a pink double ring where two of them have just paired.

EXP-019Unsupervised

The Ant Farm

An alien colony that nobody steers. Three needs, sixteen digits of gossip, a Federation that rents everything, and four weeks of it going wrong in interesting ways.

Joe Malick at his microphone in the Dead Air studio, mountains beyond the window.

EXP-017Broadcasting

Dead Air — The Tape Room

Joe Malick's late-night paranormal radio show. The core nineteen and fifteen saved nights, an animated studio, and guests who have brought entirely too much evidence.

Joe Malick at his microphone, with coffee, a mixing desk and a mountain night outside the studio window.

EXP-018On the air

Dead Air

A late-night radio station, a guest with a floor plan of the Moon, and a room full of tapes. What Dead Air is, how the shows get made, and where to listen.