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My first novel, coming 2024-01-01!
[https://midnightssimulacra.com My first novel] released 2024-01-11! You probably want [https://midnightssimulacra.com the book page].
* [https://nick-black.com/midnightssimulacra-promo.pdf promo packet]
* [https://nick-black.com/midnights-simulacra-chapter-3.pdf Sample chapter 3]


It's a romp featuring plenty of hacking, clandestine chemistry, and even a spot of at-home uranium enrichment. Along the way, there's lots of science and philosophy of science, and some big questions.
==Illustrations==
fullpage black and white illustrations by [https://www.justinbarkerart.com/ Justin Barker]


==Dramatis Personae==
not all of these ended up being used.
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.


* Sherman Spartacus Katz (b. 1980)
'''warning: these arguably contain spoilers'''
** 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.
<gallery perrow=6>
** Enters GT 1998 CS+MATH BS, graduates 2005
File:01-TeddieJodie-HC-300.jpg|jenseits von gut und böse (beyond good and evil)
 
File:02-SSKSign-HC-300.jpg|mémoires d’outre-tombe (memoirs from beyond the grave)
* Michael Luis Bolaño (b. 1979)
File:03-MLBCompCubicle-HC-300.jpg|the thirst for annihilation
** 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).
File:04-SSK MLBInDorm-HC-300.jpg|the age of innocence
** Enters GT 1998 IE+PHYS BS, graduates 2002
File:03-DC-Party-HC-300.jpg|without MSG i am nothing
 
File:06-SSKPostItGirl-HC-300.jpg|the yellow wallpaper
* Devesh Choudhary (b. 1977)
File:07-AO MLB-HC-300.jpg|unfair arguments with existence
** Also a pursuing alligator snapping turtle.
File:05-SSK MLBVanLeer-HC-300.jpg|le rouge et le noir (the red and the black)
** Enters GT 1997 PHYS BS, graduates 2003
File:08-VCT-Gaming-HC-300.jpg|fanged noumena
** Enters GT 2008 PHYS PhD
File:05-Cloud-SSK-PhishLot-HC-300.jpg|their eyes were watching god
 
File:09-Erica-Arguing-HC-300.jpg|le sens du combat (the art of struggle)
* Alexei Orshanskiy (b. 1980)
File:11-SSKErikaLab-HC-300.jpg|el jardín de senderos que se bifurcan (the garden of forking paths)
** Enters GT 1999 CS+MechE BS, graduates 2003
File:04-AT-CrossingStreet-HC-300.jpg|to the lighthouse
** Enters GT 2003 MechE MS, graduates 2005
File:16-ElevatorWarhead-HC-300.jpg|war in the age of intelligent machines
 
File:10-Greg-OwningIt-HC-300.jpg|auch zwerge haben klein angefangen (even dwarfs started small)
* Vladimir cel Tredat (b. 1982)
File:02-MLB-Drinking-HC-300.jpg|angle of repose
** Enters GT 2002 CS, graduates 2005
File:20-OrianaCab-HC-300.jpg|le dieu du carnage (god of carnage)
 
File:06-DYK-Zoo-HC-300.jpg|a mathematical theory of communication
* Anarbek Tursyn (b. 1982)
File:07-SSKRunHighway-HC-300.jpg|the difference between me and you is that i am not on fire
** Enters MEPhI 2000 NucE BS, graduates 2005
</gallery>
** Enters GT 2009 NucE MS, graduates 2011
 
* Cloud (b. ?)
** No educational history reported
 
* Erica Marelli (b. 1985)
** Enters UC-Berkeley 2003 Chemistry BS, graduates 2006
** Enters GT 2006 Bioinformatics MS, graduates 2009
** Enters GT 2009 BME PhD, graduates 2013
 
* Greg Moyer (b. 1979)
** Enters GT 1998 MGMT BS, graduates 2003
 
* Do Yoon Kim (b. 1991)
** Enters GT 2009 CS+PHYS BS, graduates 2013
 
* Oriana Marino (b. 1988)
** Enters GSU 2010 Phil+Journalism BS

Latest revision as of 04:46, 10 March 2024

Front and back covers, and spine

My first novel released 2024-01-11! You probably want the book page.

Illustrations

fullpage black and white illustrations by Justin Barker

not all of these ended up being used.

warning: these arguably contain spoilers

  • jenseits von gut und böse (beyond good and evil)

    jenseits von gut und böse (beyond good and evil)

  • mémoires d’outre-tombe (memoirs from beyond the grave)

    mémoires d’outre-tombe (memoirs from beyond the grave)

  • the thirst for annihilation

    the thirst for annihilation

  • the age of innocence

    the age of innocence

  • without MSG i am nothing

    without MSG i am nothing

  • the yellow wallpaper

    the yellow wallpaper

  • unfair arguments with existence

    unfair arguments with existence

  • le rouge et le noir (the red and the black)

    le rouge et le noir (the red and the black)

  • fanged noumena

    fanged noumena

  • their eyes were watching god

    their eyes were watching god

  • le sens du combat (the art of struggle)

    le sens du combat (the art of struggle)

  • el jardín de senderos que se bifurcan (the garden of forking paths)

    el jardín de senderos que se bifurcan (the garden of forking paths)

  • to the lighthouse

    to the lighthouse

  • war in the age of intelligent machines

    war in the age of intelligent machines

  • auch zwerge haben klein angefangen (even dwarfs started small)

    auch zwerge haben klein angefangen (even dwarfs started small)

  • angle of repose

    angle of repose

  • le dieu du carnage (god of carnage)

    le dieu du carnage (god of carnage)

  • a mathematical theory of communication

    a mathematical theory of communication

  • the difference between me and you is that i am not on fire

    the difference between me and you is that i am not on fire

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