For a while now I’ve been writing a speculative literary novel — The Sigma Emperor — Book I: The Shape and the House — about a physicist who draws something in the sand on a Sardinian beach and accidentally derives the universe, and then his wife has to decide whether the civilisation built on top of it deserves to exist. You get the idea.
For most of that time, the book has been living on my hard drive and in my head, which is not a place readers can visit. That has now changed.
thesigmaemperor.com is live.
It’s the proper home the novel deserves: cover, synopsis, character pages, the world, the author, a newsletter called Notes from the Kitchen Table, and — most importantly — the opening five chapters as a free downloadable preview for anyone who signs up. No spam. No twelve-part drip sequence. No “are you sure?” Just email → PDF → reading. If the opening grabs you, the rest of the book will know what to do with you.
Why a separate site?
Because the novel is its own thing. It deserves its own address, its own cover, its own atmosphere — not a corner of the Books section over here. Trying to cram it in would be like keeping a cathedral in the kitchen drawer, and I’ve learned my lesson about kitchen drawers.
Go take a look. Read the first five chapters. Tell me what you think.
A Roma se dice: “Si nun ce provi, nun lo sai.”