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| My first novel, coming 2024-01-01!
| | [[File:Midnightsimulacracover.jpg|right|thumb|Front and back covers, and spine]] |
| * [https://nick-black.com/midnightssimulacra-promo.pdf promo packet]
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| * [https://nick-black.com/midnights-simulacra-chapter-3.pdf Sample chapter 3]
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| ==Dramatis Personae==
| | [https://midnightssimulacra.com My first novel] released 2024-01-11! You probably want [https://midnightssimulacra.com the book page]. |
| Major characters are introduced in prime-numbered chapters. Originally, I was going to do something inspired by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serialism serialist music], and identify each character with a prime number, and then only have characters in a given chapter if they were in that chapter number's prime factorization. This idea sucked for several reasons, so I abandoned it.
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| * Sherman Spartacus Katz (b. 1980)
| | ==Illustrations== |
| ** Also mother Eveline (Evy), and her husband Cassius James. Also Theodore Roosevelt and Jodie Foster, agents of an undetermined agency in a series of recurring dreams.
| | fullpage black and white illustrations by [https://www.justinbarkerart.com/ Justin Barker] |
| ** Enters GT 1998 CS+MATH BS, graduates 2005
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| * Michael Luis Bolaño (b. 1979)
| | not all of these ended up being used. |
| ** Also great-great-grandfather Gustavo, and his wife Guadalupe; their son Antonio, and his wife Valentina; their three children: eldest son José Luis, and the twin daughters Xevera and Zita; Lillian, wife of José Luis; their son Luis, and his wife Rosemary; their son Diego (brother of MLB).
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| ** Enters GT 1998 IE+PHYS BS, graduates 2002
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| * Devesh Choudhary (b. 1977)
| | '''warning: these arguably contain spoilers''' |
| ** Also a pursuing alligator snapping turtle.
| | <gallery perrow=6> |
| ** Enters GT 1997 PHYS BS, graduates 2003
| | File:01-TeddieJodie-HC-300.jpg|jenseits von gut und böse (beyond good and evil) |
| ** Enters GT 2008 PHYS PhD
| | File:02-SSKSign-HC-300.jpg|mémoires d’outre-tombe (memoirs from beyond the grave) |
| | | File:03-MLBCompCubicle-HC-300.jpg|the thirst for annihilation |
| * Alexei Orshanskiy (b. 1980)
| | File:04-SSK MLBInDorm-HC-300.jpg|the age of innocence |
| ** Enters GT 1999 CS+MechE BS, graduates 2003
| | File:03-DC-Party-HC-300.jpg|without MSG i am nothing |
| ** Enters GT 2003 MechE MS, graduates 2005
| | File:06-SSKPostItGirl-HC-300.jpg|the yellow wallpaper |
| | | File:07-AO MLB-HC-300.jpg|unfair arguments with existence |
| * Vladimir cel Tredat (b. 1982)
| | File:05-SSK MLBVanLeer-HC-300.jpg|le rouge et le noir (the red and the black) |
| ** Enters GT 2002 CS, graduates 2005
| | File:08-VCT-Gaming-HC-300.jpg|fanged noumena |
| | | File:05-Cloud-SSK-PhishLot-HC-300.jpg|their eyes were watching god |
| * Anarbek Tursyn (b. 1982)
| | File:09-Erica-Arguing-HC-300.jpg|le sens du combat (the art of struggle) |
| ** Enters MEPhI 2000 NucE BS, graduates 2005
| | File:11-SSKErikaLab-HC-300.jpg|el jardín de senderos que se bifurcan (the garden of forking paths) |
| ** Enters GT 2009 NucE MS, graduates 2011
| | File:04-AT-CrossingStreet-HC-300.jpg|to the lighthouse |
| | | File:16-ElevatorWarhead-HC-300.jpg|war in the age of intelligent machines |
| * Cloud (b. ?)
| | File:10-Greg-OwningIt-HC-300.jpg|auch zwerge haben klein angefangen (even dwarfs started small) |
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| | File:02-MLB-Drinking-HC-300.jpg|angle of repose |
| | | File:20-OrianaCab-HC-300.jpg|le dieu du carnage (god of carnage) |
| * Erica Marelli (b. 1985)
| | File:06-DYK-Zoo-HC-300.jpg|a mathematical theory of communication |
| ** Enters UC-Berkeley 2003 Chemistry BS, graduates 2006
| | File:07-SSKRunHighway-HC-300.jpg|the difference between me and you is that i am not on fire |
| ** Enters GT 2006 Bioinformatics MS, graduates 2009
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| ** Enters GT 2009 BME PhD, graduates 2013
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| * Greg Moyer (b. 1979)
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| ** Enters GT 1998 MGMT BS, graduates 2003
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| * Do Yoon Kim (b. 1991)
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| ** Enters GT 2009 CS+PHYS BS, graduates 2013
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| * Oriana Marino (b. 1988)
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| ** Enters GSU 2010 Phil+Journalism BS
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