Tales of the known wet

Somewhere in the Known Wet — a world of five oceans connected by impossible waterfalls, sailed by fruit, vegetables, and creatures who are all, in their own way, just trying to get on with things — stories are happening that nobody thought to write down. Tales of the Known Wet fixes that. The Known Wet is a place that takes itself completely seriously, which is impressive given that its harbourmasters are sea cucumbers, its grandest cities float on a golden ocean where the light is always late afternoon and faintly unsettling, and somewhere in the middle of everything there is a storm that has been going for four hundred years and shows no sign of stopping. Ships ride impossible upward waterfalls daily. Harbourmasters file the paperwork. The world gets on with things. At the centre of it all — eventually — is Captain Cobsworth: a corn cob, a dented cooking pot hat, a wooden spoon, and an unearned confidence in his own navigation that the ocean has never once manage