“Before there was anything, there was the Zero.”
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The story
“That’s not my name.”“It is. It always was.”Aiora and Masy · chapter 3
Those who dare to touch it receive the ten numbers, from 0 to 9, in an order that is theirs alone, and wake up in the Numiverse: a world where every number is a human quality.
Guided by Masy and by Nanouk, his constant companion, a nurse, a young man on his last day of school and a boy playing tag discover what their ten numbers say about them. When two people hold the same number in the same position, Resonance happens: their paths cross and move forward together, and every step brings them a little closer to themselves.
Editorial note
“Entertaining. You use fantasy for reality.”
Masytron · Numiverse tells a fantasy story in order to talk about real things. Each number from 0 to 9 is a human quality, and every person carries all of them, but in an order no one else has. The question that runs through the book is simple and difficult at once: what do your ten numbers say about you?
Masy doesn’t give speeches. He tells stories, listens, lets himself be interrupted with questions and almost never explains more than he needs to. His teachings are the heart of the book, and the characters’ journey is what carries the reader from one to the next.
Nor is the order of the chapters a matter of style. In the Numiverse, two Walkers move forward together when they share a number in the same position, and that meeting is called Resonance. No one knows in advance whom they will resonate with. The book follows them in the order they arrive: chance is the structure.
The collection divides Book One into three stages, read in order: the arrival, the teachings and the paths. Each chapter opens with a full-page plate, in a warm, cinematic style of illustration, with the golden light of the Zero as the common thread. It is a book for any age: to read alone, in silence, or aloud beside a child.
Watch the sample film on YouTube
The sample film
A preview of what the Book One film will be: the birth of the numbers, Luna’s arrival in the square, Aiora in the Zero, the tree of Generosity and the return.
It shows the tone and the world of the story, and serves as a guide for a future production. With subtitles in English and Spanish.
Watch the filmThe ten numbers
The Zero is the circle where everything begins and ends. One, two and three were discovered; the others are born from a game Masy teaches Nanouk.
The past, which is always one, plus the newest number: that is how 4, 6 and 8 are born.
The two numbers in the middle: that is how 5, 7 and 9 are born.
1 + 9 = 10 is no longer a digit. Nine touches the Zero and the circle is complete.
The collection
Tap a cover to explore each volume.
Before there was anything, there was the Zero. There, Masy and Nanouk discover the ten numbers one by one and give the Numiverse its name. Much later, an enormous, silent machine appears in the old square. Three people dare to touch it and wake up in the Zero, with a new name and a question: what do your ten numbers say about you?
In the Zero, paths cross when two people share a number in the same position. Beside Masy, Aiora, Vión and Suli learn what their ten numbers mean, discover the Sources and cross into their first Numiverses. And they also learn the hardest lesson: that walking together sometimes means learning to say goodbye.
Humility, Compassion, Gratitude, Analysis, Loyalty, Sincerity, Thought: each path leads to a Numiverse that teaches what no other can. Each Walker follows a route of their own, until Nanouk begins to call them back. Some will return to the old square; others will keep walking.
The plates
One at the start of every chapter. Tap a plate to see it full size.
The box
10 | 22 43 32 62 92 32 62 43 31 71
With header 10 on the wheel, it reads “bienvenido”: Spanish for “welcome”.
Now available
The complete Book One, with its twenty-four chapters, the prologue and the twenty-five colour plates, to read on your phone, tablet or e-reader.
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Also directly on Amazon Kindle → En español: Masytron · Numiverso, Libro Primero →The first Spanish print edition, in full colour with three volumes in a box, comes in two printings of one hundred collections. The first is a collector’s edition: each box is numbered and signed by the author, and it will not be printed again. The second is the regular edition. An English print edition is in preparation.
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The ring keeps turning.
ISBN 978-956-03-1421-5