Guides
Notes on the kind of stories Cosmonaut writes.
A small collection of essays on AI choose-your-own-adventure, family bedtime reading, and interactive fiction. Written by the people building Cosmonaut.
Form
AI choose-your-own-adventure, in a longer lineage
The format started with a paperback in 1979. Forty-some years later, a generation of readers is meeting it again - this time with a story that remembers them.
6 min readFamily
A bedtime story that gets to know your kid
On the easy nights and the difficult ones, what we want is a story that meets a child where they are. Here is what that looks like, and how we built it.
5 min readCraft
Interactive fiction for readers
Most "AI story" tools want to be chatbots. Cosmonaut wants to be a book you can step inside - prose-first, no stats, no grind, written for grown readers.
7 min read