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Nissa Tolton

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    • Salt Island DiariesShunned by Victorian society at every turn, these women build a society of their own
    • Good-Bye HarajukuLove, speed, capitalism, and post-truth
    • Principle of FlocksHistorical romance, time-travel, and the metaverse
    • Titcomb’s LettersVery particular advice to young people, from 1858 onward.
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    • Salt Island DiariesShunned by Victorian society at every turn, these women build a society of their own
    • Good-Bye HarajukuLove, speed, capitalism, and post-truth
    • Principle of FlocksHistorical romance, time-travel, and the metaverse
    • Titcomb’s LettersVery particular advice to young people, from 1858 onward.
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Salt Island Diaries - A storm is coming
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  • Salt Island Diaries

The Salt Island Diaries

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 22 June 202224 June 2025

Shunned by Victorian society at every turn, the residents of a cliff-top boarding house create a society of their own.

Principle of Flocks
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  • Principle of Flocks

Principle of Flocks

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 13 June 202119 February 2026

Principle of Flocks is a NA novel about love, alternate time-lines, and the most precious commodity in the metaverse: lucidity.

Good-Bye Harajuku
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Good-Bye Harajuku

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 10 June 202128 May 2025

Good-Bye Harajuku is a series about love, speed, capitalism, and post-truth.⁠⁠ Funny, quirky, and irreverent, it’s deeply philosophical at its core.

Good-Bye Harajuku Quotes
  • Good-Bye Harajuku

Good-Bye Harajuku Quotes

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 16 March 202616 March 2026

Quotes from the book

The Emily in Each of Us
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The Emily in Each of Us

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 15 March 202616 March 2026

There is an Emily in each of us. It is incompatible with this world, and thereby reminds us that we are not native to it.

Daily Religion
  • Philosophy

Daily Religion

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 19 February 202619 February 2026

Civilisation requires compromises. In exchange for comfort, we lost our reason for being here.

Definition of spirituality
  • Philosophy

Definition of spirituality

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 27 December 202521 January 2026

The greatest mystery of the universe is how our own ignorance shrouds it.

Dream Wraiths
  • Dreaming

Dream Wraiths

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 27 December 202520 February 2026

The dreaming world is full of creatures — self-delusional, reckless and wilful. Coping with them is no easy task.

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Protected: Testament

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 30 July 202530 July 2025

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

Netherlings
  • Dreaming

Netherlings

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 26 July 202520 February 2026

Not all sentient dream characters are nice. But consent is still the organising principle of the dream world.

The War on Zen
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The War on Zen

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 14 July 202518 December 2025

If zen is the enemy, what are we fighting for?

Dreams are Life Experiences
  • Dreaming

Dreams are Life Experiences

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 3 July 202521 February 2026

Your dreaming experiences are experiences. Because they are self-modifying, they are to be taken more seriously than your waking experiences.

Only the Cutting
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  • Philosophy

Only the Cutting

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 28 June 20253 July 2025

This quote from Myamoto Musashi has always struck me as a book contained in a single sentence.

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