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| 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#bibliography https://midnightssimulacra.com]. | | 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#bibliography https://midnightssimulacra.com]. |
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| ==Blurb==
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| The twenty-first century's primary path of socioeconomic mobility is engineering;
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| scientists took over from the priests no later than the twentieth.
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| America's most ambitious students these days compete for placement in STEM
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| programs, as do some of her wiliest rogues.
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| Michael Luis Bolaño is the scion of Mexican oil wealth gone to rut in Texas.
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| Sherman Spartacus Katz is the hyperliterate son of evangelical eccentrics from
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| the North Georgia mountains. One hopes to restore what's been lost, the other
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| to attain what never was. Together at an elite Institute of Technology they
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| train as engineers. Together in the dark they study forbidden teachings.
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| By graduation, they're formidably competent, audacious to a fault, and
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| wholly ungovernable.
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| <i>midnight's simulacra</i> is a hysterical, scientifically rigorous, and
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| fastpaced thriller, a modern picaresque, a portrait of the autist as a young man, and unlike any other novel you've read.
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