Midnight's Simulacra

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Front and back covers, and spine

My first novel, coming 2024-01-01!

• promo packet
• 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.

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