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The future of reading

Books that are truly yours: Personalized, interactive fiction at your fingertips.

Want to read more? Start a book made exactly for you, and you will pick it up!

Choose a world

Anything you can imagine

Open Story

Start from an idea — any genre, any world. The story is invented around what you give it and grows chapter by chapter.

Dual-POV crime thriller

Night Work

Pick a real city. Live both sides of a cat-and-mouse — the modern-Sherlock detective and the antihero they're hunting — chapter by chapter.

Action-driven hard sci-fi

The Long Sky

Pick what you are — Exogen, Martian, Earther — and survive a year of shifts, transits, and contracts across a settled Sol system.

Romance-leaning realism

Where You Land

Move to a new city and build a life from nothing — an apartment, a routine, the people who become your year.

Brutal grimdark fantasy

Emberfall

A hard road through a wounded continent where ember-magic barely holds and anyone can die — warlords, betrayals, choices paid for in blood.

How it works

  1. 1
    Pick a world. Four to begin in — a modern crime, hard sci-fi, a realist drama, a fantasy road.
  2. 2
    Make it yours. Shape your character — or, in a saga like Night Work, just pick the city and it casts the leads — and tell it what you want to read. Then it writes your first chapter.
  3. 3
    Read or listen. The choices at each chapter's end bend the next one. Come back and wake up to what happens next.

Your story is one tap from starting.

Pick a world, shape who you are, and read your first chapter in minutes — then come back and wake up to the next. Free to begin.

Featured staff picks

Sagas worth reading — some finished, some only a few chapters in. Tap any to start.

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My Sagas

Pick a saga to continue, or start a new one.

Awake is in beta. Share beta feedback — bugs, ideas, what works.

Featured

A hand-picked shelf of sagas worth reading — some finished, some only a few chapters in. Read-only, free to explore.

Before we begin

Awake is a single-reader testing rig for a serial story you shape through choices. It needs one API key — OpenRouter — to write and narrate. Stored only in your browser. Text model and narrator voice are configurable in Settings later.

Choose your saga

Pick a template. You'll set the scene on the next screen — your character, or just the city for Night Work — and the story unfolds chapter by chapter, with choices that bend where it goes.

Your character

Fill in as much or as little as you want. Anything you leave blank, the story will invent.

Please don't enter personal information or details about real people — only fictional characters. Awake's terms of use allow fictional input only; anything you submit here is treated as creative writing fed to the model.
The city or town they moved to. Well-known places get richer prose with real neighborhoods; lesser-known places have their gaps filled in with fitting fictional details.
Advanced settings
Whose voice the story is told in. Third person is the default.
The language the whole story is written in — prose and dialogue. A few foreign words for flavor are fine, but no long untranslated passages. Want multiple languages? Say so in “What would you like to read?” above and that takes over.

Building a new saga takes about 3 minutes — we craft the world and write your first chapter before it's ready.

Your pitch

Here's where your idea could go. Edit the synopsis to steer it, then start — or try another take.

Writing the chapter…
While you wait

Chapters

Account

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Membership

Admin

Cost total
— text
— TTS (est.)
Revenue
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OpenRouter spend
OpenRouter left

TTS cost is a modeled estimate; the OpenRouter figures are real spend for reconciliation.

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Settings

Narrator voice

One narrator voice for every story. Changes apply going forward — already-listened-to audio stays as it was.

Pick the voice you'd like to listen to.
How fast the narrator reads. Applied at generation time.
Live playback rate for already-generated audio. Doesn't re-narrate.
A delivery hint for the narrator — tone, pacing, accent, anything you'd want a real reader to know before they start.
Pick a voice preset.
Higher stability gives a steadier read; lower stability is more expressive but can vary paragraph to paragraph.
How closely to match the reference voice. Higher values keep the voice consistent throughout the story.
Leans into the voice's distinctive style. 0 = neutral, best for literary narration.
Small clarity boost — usually fine to keep on.

Reading

Size of the chapter prose in the reader.

Saga settings Saved

Settings for this saga. They apply only here — other sagas have their own.

Changes apply from here on — the next chapter, the next planned act, and the next bible rewrite. Already-written chapters keep what they had.

Reader request

A standing instruction to the narrator about what kind of story you came for — what to slow down on, what to give a full chapter rather than a paragraph, what kind of moments deserve weight. The writer treats this as the reader's bargain with the story. Voice and craft rules still apply.

Advanced settings
Whose voice the story is told in. Third person is the default.

Story language

Already-written chapters keep their language. Brief foreign words for flavor are fine; no long untranslated passages unless your reader request asks for multiple languages.

Saga actions

Debug

Read-only view of this story's bible, acts, beats, and summaries. Useful for diagnosing why a chapter went the way it did.

Removes this story's rendered chapter audio from the cloud and this device. The next listen re-renders it (now as compact MP3). Narration chunks stay cached, so it won't re-bill the voice generation.

Dev test: replaces this story with a few one-word arc-0 chapters and parks you at the end of arc 0. Tap the chapter's continue button to see the new-arc ($9.99) paywall. Overwrites the story's chapters/acts — use only on a throwaway test story.

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