Check out my first novel, midnight's simulacra!
Midnight's Simulacra
My first novel released 2024-01-11!
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. A partial bibliography is available at https://midnightssimulacra.com.
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 ($10): least faithful version, but most flexible on ereaders
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
- devesh choudhary is all about physics and rolls
- atrium vestae
- y’all’ve any more of that vee-cee?
- alexei orshanskiy thinks he can get you lemons
- pavlov’s hierophant and schrödinger’s hæresiarch
- vladimir cel tredat takes up a collection
- ergot
- welcome to my lab; we’ve got Taq polymerase
Part III
- cloud wandered lonely like a daffodil
- max-cashflow min-cut theorem
- if you eat that i think it is going to kill you
- erica marelli grows tired of bivalves
- anarbek tursyn busts a move
- the chemical history of an eightball
- uranium
Part IV
- greg moyer receives some bad advice
- a stamped-in network of paths
- overall there is a smell of fried onions
- vancouver! vancouver! this is it! (necroplanetology)
- it’ll really raise the tone of your trap
- oriana marino speaks in riddles
- feedback loops are Bad Shit, to be Avoided
- my mistakes are many, but less terrible than god’s
Part V
- usurper
- prima luce
Epilogue
Illustrations
fullpage black and white illustrations by Justin Barker
not all of these ended up being used.
warning: these arguably contain spoilers
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jenseits von gut und böse (beyond good and evil)
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mémoires d’outre-tombe (memoirs from beyond the grave)
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the thirst for annihilation
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the age of innocence
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without MSG i am nothing
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the yellow wallpaper
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unfair arguments with existence
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le rouge et le noir (the red and the black)
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fanged noumena
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their eyes were watching god
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le sens du combat (the art of struggle)
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el jardín de senderos que se bifurcan (the garden of forking paths)
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to the lighthouse
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war in the age of intelligent machines
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auch zwerge haben klein angefangen (even dwarfs started small)
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angle of repose
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le dieu du carnage (god of carnage)
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a mathematical theory of communication
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the difference between me and you is that i am not on fire
