A BEEVLAND ORIGINAL SERIES · BOOK ONE AVAILABLE NOW
Welcome to the Year 2126.
100 years from now. Everything has changed. Except people.
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THE JOURNAL
Neil and Deborah Hammer
Hammerdahl™ is a small town in Nebraska, one hundred years from now. People there fix what breaks before it breaks, help their neighbors, and the beavers have been working the water longer than anybody can remember.
Neil and Deborah Hammer are raising four children—Ingrid, Anders, Elsie, and Toby—and one black Springer Spaniel named Baxter in the house Neil’s great-great-grandfather, Ivar Iverson, built with his own hands a hundred years ago. At 4:31 on the coldest morning of the year, Deborah turns on the shower and the hot water never comes. Up on the roof, a part Ivar put there a century ago has finally worn out. What Neil and Deborah find starts a year nobody in town will forget.
THE YEAR 2126
Houses that pay
In Hammerdahl™, the roofs Ivar designed are covered with thousands of tiny lenses that catch the sun and make electricity and steam. As Carl Grupp puts it: “A roof like ours makes more power than the house needs, most of the year, and the county pays for the extra.” Nobody thinks that’s special. It’s just how houses are built.
When a tornado came through in May, every one of Ivar’s roofs held. Ivar wrote: “I don’t build for most years. I build for the one afternoon in a hundred years when the sky goes green.” This book is how they got there, one roof at a time.
ONE A WEEK, FOR A YEAR
52 Weeks. 52 Stories. 52 Pictures.
Fifty notebooks. Fifty-two chapters. One year in Hammerdahl™, from Thanksgiving 2126 to Thanksgiving 2127—kitchen robots learning Freida’s gravy recipe, a thirty-year pie bet that ends in 211 pies, a jar of the first ceramic beads Ivar ever fired, and the night the town learned the Lusk family wanted to sell six houses to the families who live in them.
Every chapter is one week, and each one comes with its own picture, because a picture is worth a thousand words. The book is out now, in hardcover and paperback.
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The Shelf
Hammerdahl™ is available now in hardcover and paperback—fifty-two chapters, one for every week of the year. Inside: roofs that pay their own way, a green stove that reads all fifty of Ivar’s notebooks, a tornado that every one of Ivar’s roofs survived, and a town where neighbors build each other’s houses together.
Book One is available now. Order your copy today.
STUDIO AND LICENSING
Studios, readers, and friends
Studios and producers: we’re open to talking about film, television, and animation for Hammerdahl™. We’re looking to license, not sell the rights.
Readers: send us a note anytime. To hear when new stories are out, use the sign-up form above. Bapa reads every one.