Nulapeiron is a recurring science-fiction setting in John Meaney’s work, and its decisive significance lies in the way the name anchors several related narratives to a shared world and a long historical span. The supplied bibliography places Nulapeiron at the center of three explicitly dated titles—Paradox Nulapeiron AD 3404, Context Nulapeiron AD 3418, and Resolution Nulapeiron AD 3423—making the location a framework for stories separated by nineteen years of in-world chronology rather than a single isolated backdrop.

Definition and Setting

Nulapeiron is identified directly as the setting of Meaney’s dated science-fiction works. The evidence does not provide a physical description, map, political structure, population, or named landmarks, so its most secure encyclopedic definition is structural: it is a place whose identity is carried through a sequence of narratives and historical coordinates. The repeated pairing of the location’s name with specific future years gives it a temporal as well as geographical function.

The chronology begins with Paradox Nulapeiron AD 3404, continues through Context Nulapeiron AD 3418, and reaches Resolution Nulapeiron AD 3423. These dates distinguish Nulapeiron from a merely decorative place-name. They imply a setting capable of sustaining developments across successive periods, while the titles themselves mark changing narrative positions within that history.

Works and Chronological Reach

Meaney’s Paradox Nulapeiron AD 3404 is the earliest of the three explicitly identified Nulapeiron entries. Its placement in AD 3404 establishes the first recorded point in the setting’s chronology and associates the location with a work titled Paradox, a title that suggests a problem or contradiction, though the supplied evidence does not specify its plot or nature.

Context Nulapeiron AD 3418 moves the sequence fourteen years forward. The title’s emphasis on context gives the setting an additional interpretive dimension: Nulapeiron is not only where the story occurs but also the historical environment through which events are to be understood. That reading remains grounded in the title’s wording; the evidence does not disclose which institutions, conflicts, or characters provide the context.

Resolution Nulapeiron AD 3423 is the latest dated entry, nineteen years after Paradox Nulapeiron AD 3404 and five years after Context Nulapeiron AD 3418. The word “Resolution” creates a clear structural contrast with “Paradox,” while the evidence stops short of confirming whether the later work resolves the earlier work’s specific dilemma. What can be stated securely is that the bibliography presents Nulapeiron as a setting traversed by a sequence from an early paradox through a later resolution.

Recurrence in Meaney’s Bibliography

Nulapeiron appears alongside Meaney’s separate entries for Context, Paradox, and Resolution, indicating that the dated titles belong to a broader pattern of related or reworked material rather than standing alone in the bibliography. The undated listings preserve the same progression of names: Context Nulapeiron AD 3418 appears beside Context, Paradox Nulapeiron AD 3404 beside Paradox, and Resolution Nulapeiron AD 3423 beside Resolution. This repeated pairing foregrounds the relationship between the setting-specific versions and the shorter or undated forms.

The setting’s recurrence also distinguishes it from the many one-off locations represented in the larger bibliography. Nulapeiron is named repeatedly across multiple entries by the same author, and each dated occurrence adds another point to its internal chronology. Its narrative identity therefore emerges through accumulation: the world is built not by a supplied description of scenery but by the persistence of its name across titles, genres, and time markers.

Narrative Significance and Limits of the Evidence

The available evidence supports reading Nulapeiron as a site of continuity, historical layering, and series-level structure. The dates make change across time visible, while the sequence of titles—Paradox, Context, and Resolution—suggests an architecture in which problems, circumstances, and outcomes are distributed across different moments. The location functions as the stable coordinate that allows those shifts to be recognized as parts of a larger fictional history.

No supplied passage identifies Nulapeiron’s inhabitants, social order, technology, geography, or direct events. Claims about colonization, urban form, travel, conflict, or political power would therefore exceed the evidence. What the record does establish is more precise: Nulapeiron is a named future setting associated with John Meaney, revisited in works dated AD 3404, AD 3418, and AD 3423, and used to connect a sequence whose titles move from paradox toward resolution.