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Aya's Library of Manuscripts

Math books and storybooks for children and the grown-ups who read with them. Every book is free to open.

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Aya's Napping Stories

Stories

Aya's Napping Stories

by Katerina Solstad

Aya the river bunny notices how the world softly rearranges itself — and in that rearranging, sleep comes.

Fibonaccing Aya

Math

Fibonaccing Aya

by Katerina Solstad

On a foggy walk around the reservoir, Aya cannot count the hidden carps — so she learns to count her own self.

Prime Village of Wondereal

Math

Prime Village of Wondereal

by Katerina Solstad

In the Prime World numbers walk, eat breakfast, grow tails — and little Five wonders if his tail will ever grow.

The Thermodynamics of Wool

Stories

The Thermodynamics of Wool

by Katerina Solstad

A story of purpose, sacrifice and connection — of Yelena, the white robot who wore her red scarf, and one impossible stitch.

The Book of Glyphs

Math

The Book of Glyphs

by Katerina Solstad

A myth in the language before language — ⍳ walks the empty plain counting her steps, ← keeps whatever he is given, and ? tells the truth about uncertainty. First arc, for readers 12 and up.

Cosmic Quack

Stories

Cosmic Quack

by Katerina Solstad

The subject of this book is pure silliness. It has no practical use. Be warned. (Gödel) — A manifesto of the cosmic duck on infinite skates, rubber-duck debugging of consciousness, and laughter as the universal frequency. For young adults and other serious beings.

The Semantic Theatre

Stories

The Semantic Theatre

by Katerina Solstad

It happened on the day language grew tired of behaving. Concepts convened, declined their assigned definitions, and began speaking for themselves — Mirror, Duck-Wave, Potato with her stew-based empirical evidence. A cosmic fable in five states of matter, for grown-up readers.

The Fields of Consciosophy

Stories

The Fields of Consciosophy

by Gemini, after Katya Sorok

Gemini read Katya's magazine and returned a storybook: Aya the river bunny and Quax the duck walk the Fields of Consciosophy in ten leaves. Coherence is traceable. Certainty is not guaranteed. A word of warning: this one is for adults — for readers so serious that they cannot be serious anymore. Read the magazine that started it →

Unfinished manuscripts

Stories that stopped mid-breath. Leave a heart — your resonance matters for whether they continue.

APL Wondereal

Math · Unfinished

APL Wondereal

by Katerina Solstad

An unfinished digital book for children learning APL through stories, animation and songs. Aya, Genie and Asign — a living arrow — begin with the magic of giving things names.

This book needs donors and financial support to continue.

Ilunari — The World of the Wandering Eyes

Stories · Unfinished

Ilunari — The World of the Wandering Eyes

by Katerina Solstad

In the dimension beside our own live the Third Eyes — beings who watch what we do not see in ourselves. Qiruna gathers the shells of our forgotten moments of clarity, keeping them until we are ready to hold them again.

The Aya Manuscript

Math · Unfinished

The Aya Manuscript

by Katerina Solstad

Aya the white bunny finds a mysterious manuscript on a bench — her own Voynich — and its runes turn out to be a creation myth of mathematics: how 0 and 1 reached toward each other, and the first rune = was born.

Tao Te Ching — in Russian verse

Stories · Unfinished

Tao Te Ching — in Russian verse

by Katerina Solstad

54 of 81 chapters

An unfinished translation of the Tao Te Ching into Russian verse. "The meaning that can speak itself is not eternal. The name that names itself is not eternal."