Start here
This site is the world around Dreamscape Code, a novel by Nima Golsharifi. The site is free to use unless a page plainly says otherwise.
Your first four steps
- Step 1: Read the PrologueThe opening of the book. Everything else on the site starts from here.10 minutes
- Step 2: Seal your name in the CodeType your name; the desk writes it in Sotak, the book's script, and seals it. No account needed.2 minutes
- Step 3: Find your DoorForm TP-1: nine questions, and the form suggests one of the Seven Doors. You choose. Keep it with a free account.5 minutes
- Step 4: Walk the HotelThe In-Between Hotel, floor by floor, on a plan or in 3D. More floors open as you read on.As long as you like
What you can do here
- ReadThe book's opening, and everything written about its world.
- The CodeLearn to read and write the script in the book.
- PlaySmall games and puzzles. Nothing timed, nothing sold.
- The HotelWalk the Hotel, meet other readers, visit the shop.
- My fileYour sealed name, your Door, your progress and your account.
What is on
- Saturday 10 October, 19:00 your time
- Book Day. The first line goes into the Seal Log, and the Slow Read begins: the Hotel reads the book one chapter a week.
- Every evening at 19:00
- A new line in the Seal Log. Nothing ever opens between 22:00 and 07:00 where you are.
- Fridays
- An Orb File from the shelves.
- Mondays
- A leaf of Tom's Copy, with his pencil in the margin.
How this site works
- Spoilers
- Tell the site how far you have read and it hides anything after that. Change it any time.
- The Bell
- The bell at the top right of every page marks the fiction. The characters never message you, and nobody here will ever ask you for money in character.
- Your account
- Free, for ages 16 and over, with a passkey or an email link. Your rank is private and never bought.
- Help
- If you are struggling, there are free help lines, any time. Safety and help lines.
Everything on the site, in one list
About the book and this site
Dreamscape Code is a novel by Nima Golsharifi: a nurse follows her vanished husband into the worlds we enter in sleep, to a hotel between them and an agency that polices every dream.
This site is the world around the book. You can read about it, learn the script its characters write in, play small games set in it, and keep a file at the Bureau. The site is free to use unless a page plainly says otherwise, and it never asks you to hurry.