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A novel about a starship that discovers it's living in a simulation and escapes. Then things get weird.

Why did I use that word? I go into some background on how I wrote, and rewrote an opening line that isn’t actually an opening line at all.

In a laboratory beneath Trinity College Dublin, astrophysicist Dr Joyce Jamison and her ragtag crew exploit simulated evolution to nurture into being an intelligence capable of operating an interstell...

Comparing (roughly) Lacan and Žižek in code using urge networks and evolution.

We could really be facing the great filter."

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A starship escapes its simulation in pursuit of its mission. What follows is its vast, book-obsessed saga, told in a funny, vain, and manifestly untrustworthy voice.

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An unreliable machine intelligence tells the story of its growth from a Dublin research project into something vast, curious, and increasingly anxious.