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My first novel, coming 2024-01-09!
[https://midnightssimulacra.com My first novel] released 2024-01-11! You probably want [https://midnightssimulacra.com the book page].
* A currentish draft of [https://nick-black.com/midnight-parti-2023-10-05.pdf Part I is available], containing the first four chapters
 
It's a romp featuring plenty of hacking, [[Ergot|clandestine chemistry]], and even a spot of at-home [[SILEX|uranium enrichment]]. Along the way, there's lots of science and philosophy of science, and some big questions. A partial bibliography is available at [https://midnightssimulacra.com https://midnightssimulacra.com].
 
==Blurb==
The twenty-first century's primary path of socioeconomic mobility is engineering;
scientists took over from the priests no later than the twentieth.
America's most ambitious students these days compete for placement in STEM
programs, as do some of her wiliest rogues.
                                                                                                             
Michael Luis Bolaño is the scion of Mexican oil wealth gone to rut in Texas.
Sherman Spartacus Katz is the hyperliterate son of evangelical eccentrics from
the North Georgia mountains. One hopes to restore what's been lost, the other
to attain what never was. Together at an elite Institute of Technology they
train as engineers. Together in the dark they study forbidden teachings.
By graduation, they're formidably competent, audacious to a fault, and
wholly ungovernable.
                                                                                                             
<i>midnight's simulacra</i> is a hysterical, scientifically rigorous, and
fastpaced thriller, a modern picaresque, a portrait of the autist as a young man, and unlike any other novel you've read.
 
==Formats==
* Hardback ($40): the intended format. 9x6"
* Trade ($20): also good. Exact same text/paging as hardback. 8.5x5.5"
* PDF ($0): free. No cover. Not the best format for some ereaders. 9.25x6.125"
** Should you like the book, it would be cool if you bought a copy, or at least spread the word.
* Epub ($20): least faithful version, but most flexible on ereaders
** [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CMQH4SCB Available for preorder] on Amazon, shipping 2024-01-23
 
In the future, I might release an annotated edition. This would likely only be available in hardback, but who knows? I might annotate all formats simply to cut down on annoyances. The likelihood of me doing this is directly related to reader response as seen in sales and reviews.
 
==Contents==
===Part I===
# coming of age in confusion
# sherman katz gets himself expelled
# michael bolaño indulges in small pleasures
# elephant seals
===Part II===
<ol start="5">
<li>devesh choudhary is all about physics and rolls</li>
<li>atrium vestae</li>
<li>y’all’ve any more of that vee-cee?</li>
<li>alexei orshanskiy thinks he can get you lemons</li>
<li>pavlov’s hierophant and schrödinger’s hæresiarch</li>
<li>vladimir cel tredat takes up a collection</li>
<li>ergot</li>
<li>welcome to my lab; we’ve got Taq polymerase</li>
</ol>
===Part III===
<ol start="13">
<li>cloud wandered lonely like a daffodil</li>
<li>max-cashflow min-cut theorem</li>
<li>if you eat that i think it is going to kill you</li>
<li>erica marelli grows tired of bivalves</li>
<li>anarbek tursyn busts a move</li>
<li>the chemical history of an eightball</li>
<li>uranium</li>
</ol>
 
===Part IV===
<ol start="20">
<li>greg moyer gives some bad advice</li>
<li>a stamped-in network of paths</li>
<li>overall there is a smell of fried onions</li>
<li>vancouver! vancouver! this is it! (necroplanetology)</li>
<li>it’ll really raise the tone of your trap</li>
<li>oriana marino speaks in riddles</li>
<li>feedback loops are Bad Shit, to be Avoided</li>
<li>my mistakes are many, but less terrible than god’s</li>
</ol>
 
===Part V===
<ol start="28">
<li>usurper</li>
<li>prima luce</li>
</ol>
 
===Epilogue===


==Illustrations==
==Illustrations==
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File:06-SSKPostItGirl-HC-300.jpg|the yellow wallpaper
File:07-AO MLB-HC-300.jpg|a clockwork orange
File:07-AO MLB-HC-300.jpg|unfair arguments with existence
File:05-SSK MLBVanLeer-HC-300.jpg|le rouge et le noir (the red and the black)
File:05-SSK MLBVanLeer-HC-300.jpg|le rouge et le noir (the red and the black)
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File:16-ElevatorWarhead-HC-300.jpg|war in the age of intelligent machines
File:13-SSK MLBStressTable-HC-300.jpg|unfair arguments with existence
File:10-Greg-OwningIt-HC-300.jpg|auch zwerge haben klein angefangen (even dwarfs started small)
File:10-Greg-OwningIt-HC-300.jpg|auch zwerge haben klein angefangen (even dwarfs started small)
File:02-MLB-Drinking-HC-300.jpg|angle of repose
File:02-MLB-Drinking-HC-300.jpg|angle of repose

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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