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My first novel, coming 2024-01-01!
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.
Dramatis Personae
Major characters are introduced in prime-numbered chapters. Originally, I was going to do something inspired by 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)
- 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.
- Enters GT 1998 CS+MATH BS, graduates 2005
- Michael Luis Bolaño (b. 1979)
- 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).
- Enters GT 1998 IE+PHYS BS, graduates 2002
- Devesh Choudhary (b. 1977)
- Also a pursuing alligator snapping turtle.
- Enters GT 1997 PHYS BS, graduates 2003
- Enters GT 2008 PHYS PhD
- Alexei Orshanskiy (b. 1980)
- Enters GT 1999 CS+MechE BS, graduates 2003
- Enters GT 2003 MechE MS, graduates 2005
- Vladimir cel Tredat (b. 1982)
- Enters GT 2002 CS, graduates 2005
- Anarbek Tursyn (b. 1982)
- Enters MEPhI 2000 NucE BS, graduates 2005
- 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
