Erasmus’ Reader’s Club

Erasmus’ Reader’s Club — a candlelit library table, an open book and a lit castle beyond the window

The club

One companion from every series, free.

Six short books that sit just outside the novels — a poem that became a series, a harlequin who arrives too early, the algorithm before it had a number, a sampler of poems and fables. They stand on their own, and they are yours to keep. Every one is now narrated in full: over twelve hours, read by Daniel Dorse.

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Six companions, yours to keep.

One free companion from each series. Open a cover to read what it is, then tell us where to send it.

Every one of them is also an audiobook. Daniel Dorse reads all six end to end, twelve hours and nine minutes across the set, and the recording arrives with the ebook at no charge. Press play on any cover below to hear a minute of it.

  • The Satoshi Nakamoto Biography

    The Value of Zero

    This novella is the companion to The Satoshi Nakamoto Biography.

    On 15 August 2010 a single integer overflow minted 184 billion counterfeit bitcoins and nearly ended the network in its first year. One sleepless night, five rooms, and a system th…

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    2h 07m in 16 chapters, read by Daniel Dorse. Press play for a minute of it.

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  • The Equilibrist Series

    The Slowness of a Full Life

    This novella is the prelude to The Equilibrist Series.

    The Slowness of a Full Life is an essential companion volume to The Equilibrist Series, centering on a long-lost poem recovered from the private papers of the late bookseller and W…

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    26m in 12 chapters, read by Daniel Dorse. Press play for a minute of it.

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  • The Orloj Series

    The Seventh Harlequin

    This novella is the prelude to The Orloj Series.

    Seven letters left the Prague Orloj that solstice night, not six. The seventh has stayed unopened in Blunt's canvas sack for forty years — and it holds the story of the night the s…

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    1h 13m in 16 chapters, read by Daniel Dorse. Press play for a minute of it.

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  • The Rebel Hackers

    Forty Thousand Sleepers

    This novella is the prelude to The Rebel Hackers.

    A routine $40,000 security audit turns up the raw brainwaves of 40,106 sleeping children in an unsecured bucket. Proving a waveform is a person costs five teenagers everything they…

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    2h 37m in 15 chapters, read by Daniel Dorse. Press play for a minute of it.

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  • The Algorithm Saga

    Algorithm-319: The Only One We Could Find

    This novella is the prelude to The Algorithm Saga.

    Argentina, 1977. A nineteen-year-old mathematician can prove his disappeared friend's mind is still running — but not where it is. The prequel that became the moral foundation of t…

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    2h 21m in 26 chapters, read by Daniel Dorse. Press play for a minute of it.

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  • Poetry in Symmetry

    Poetry in Passing

    This free sampler is the companion to Poetry in Symmetry.

    Four short movements walk the wire from the inside out: what happens in one person at three in the morning, a luthier in Mittenwald, a street vendor in Portoviejo, and a last quest…

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    3h 25m in 129 poems and fables, read by Daniel Dorse. Press play for a minute of it.

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