Ideas worth finding
Articles
Story fragments, research prompts and provocative ideas from the worlds Kerry Plowright is building.
Hammer · New
Walla-Warr
A wedge-tailed eagle, an F-111 and a tragedy that becomes another thread in the signal’s long approach.
Hammer origins · New
The Man, the Myth, the Legend
Boot Fulham finally reveals how Jake Shepard became Hammer—and why the name carries such weight.
McDade and Relic · New
Getting Out of Dodge
A fugitive billionaire leaves Washington for Sealandz, unaware that a far older clock has begun ticking.
Deep history · New
The First Australians
A provocative exploration of Homo floresiensis, migration through the Indonesian archipelago and a possible encounter folded into the Hammer story world.
Hammer and Relic · Film
Relic, Origin of the Artifacts
Ancient objects, deep geological time and the race to understand a power that has survived since the Permian.
Hammer and Relic
Relic, the Sculptor Signal
A neutrino burst, a vanished light in Sculptor and a pulse beneath Antarctic ice draw unlikely lives together.
Fiction excerpt
Antarctic Neutrino Burst
Two metal staves stir beneath Lake Vostok, sending an electromagnetic pulse and neutrinos through the ice.