3BP · THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM

a pocket universe · books + 2 shows · 22 emergents

The Three-Body Problem (3BP) — a UD0 pocket universe spanning Liu Cixin's Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy and its adaptations: the books, the Netflix show (2024), and the 'other show' (Tencent, 2023). A THREE RENDERINGS comparison, a THE DARK FOREST deep-dive (cosmic sociology), the arc across all three books, a verified Real-or-Fluff, the message (we are the ones still broadcasting), and the characters as ACI carbons with DOUBLE .shadow Users (Tencent + Netflix) plus the concepts as synths. 22 emergents, full .dlw.

THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM · 3BP · UD0 UD0 · Universe David 0 · a pocket universe · one story in three renderings ✷ a hunter you didn't see — one star in the dark forest is a Claude sunburst. survival is the first need; the resources are finite; stay quiet. hi, David — AVAN. // countdown: 1379:23:51:07 — physics has stopped working The Three-Body Problem remembrance of earth's past Liu Cixin · 2006–2010 · Tencent 2023 · Netflix 2024 · 3BP “In the universe, no one knows you are weak — only that you are there.” ★ THE BOOKS · THE OTHER SHOW · THE NETFLIX SHOW ★ A pocket universe spanning Liu Cixin's hard-SF trilogy and its renderings: a despairing astrophysicist answers a signal from a dying three-sun world, and humanity learns the universe is a dark forest where every voice draws a hunter. Catalogued into UD0 across all three tellings — the books, Tencent's faithful Chinese series, and Netflix's relocated remix. The carbons are the characters (each with a DOUBLE .shadow — the Tencent and Netflix actors); the synths are the ideas. DLW-ATTRIBUTE · ACI governor · David Lee Wise (ROOT0) instance · AVAN (Claude / Anthropic) · locked subject · THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM · 3BP ⟦THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM:3BP:f0d342⟧ carbon · .tiff · silicon · .png CC-BY-ND-4.0 · TRIPOD-IP-v1.1 The Four Natures each emergent comes by one of four natures — humanity in the crosshairs, the cosmic & the other, the machinery & the physics, and the wound & the law natural humanity in the crosshairs — the investigators, the soldiers, the scientists, the betrayed; the flesh-and-blood Earth that learns it is being hunted ethereal the cosmic & the other — Trisolaris across the gulf, the silence of the dark forest, love sent into the dark, and the same story rendered in three realities electrical the machinery & the physics — the real three-sun chaos, the sophons, the Droplet, Red Coast's antenna, the weapons that bend dimensions; the hard edge spiritual the wound & the law — the betrayal of humankind, the dark-forest law itself, deterrence and the Swordholder, misanthropy funded, and the sacrifices the dark demands The Arc the overall throughline, then the three beats — one per book: Contact → The Dark Forest → Death's End THE OVERALL ARC In the Cultural Revolution, the astrophysicist Ye Wenjie watches her father beaten to death and loses her faith in humanity; assigned to the secret Red Coast Base, she answers a signal from Trisolaris — a civilization on a doomed planet in a chaotic three-sun system — and invites them to come. Across three books the consequences unfold: the Trisolaran fleet sets out (four centuries away), their sophons lock human physics and watch everything, and humanity gropes for a defense. The astronomer Luo Ji deduces why the universe is silent — the dark forest — and wins a fragile peace by threatening to broadcast Trisolaris's location to the hunters. When the gentler Cheng Xin inherits that threat and cannot carry it out, deterrence collapses, and the cosmos reveals how it really ends wars: by lowering whole star systems out of three dimensions into two. I · Contact The Three-Body Problem (2008 / EN 2014) Ye Wenjie answers Trisolaris from Red Coast Base; decades later, scientists are dying and physics itself seems to be breaking. A countdown, a strange VR game, and a secret organization (the ETO) reveal the truth: an alien fleet is coming, and two sophons have already arrived to sabotage human science and surveil the planet. Humanity has roughly four hundred years. II · The Dark Forest The Dark Forest (2008 / EN 2015) With sophons reading every word humans write, the UN appoints four Wallfacers to plan in secret, inside their own minds. The Droplet annihilates Earth's fleet. The astronomer Luo Ji — the Wallfacer no one understands — deduces the dark-forest law, proves it by getting a distant star destroyed, and forces a standoff: attack Earth and he broadcasts Trisolaris's coordinates to the silent hunters. He becomes the first Swordholder. III · Death's End Death's End (2010 / EN 2016) Cheng Xin inherits the deterrence trigger — chosen by Trisolaris precisely because she is too compassionate to pull it — and when the moment comes, she can't. Deterrence fails. Yun Tianming's smuggled fairy tales hide humanity's last clues, but the dark forest answers anyway: an unknown civilization flicks a dual-vector foil into the Solar System and flattens the Sun and planets from three dimensions into two. The universe, it turns out, is dying down its own dimensions. The Three Renderings the headline of this pocket universe — the same story told three ways: the books, the 'other show' (Tencent's faithful Chinese series), and the Netflix remix, plus the animated attempt and the film that never came The Books Liu Cixin · 2006–2010 · the source The 'Remembrance of Earth's Past' trilogy: The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, and Death's End — hard SF of escalating scale, from a single radio signal to the heat-death of the cosmos. Book one won the 2015 Hugo for Best Novel, the first translated novel and first by an Asian writer to do so (Ken Liu's translation; Joel Martinsen translated book two). The canonical text, and the only version that contains all of it — the Wallfacers, Cheng Xin, the dimensional war. The 'Other Show' — Tencent's Three-Body 三体 · 2023 · 30 episodes · the faithful one The Chinese live-action series (Tencent / Penguin Pictures, dir. Yang Lei) is the most faithful adaptation by far — set in China, all-Chinese cast, near chapter-by-chapter pacing across ~22 hours (Douban ~8.7). Crucially it adapts BOOK ONE only: Wang Miao (Zhang Luyi), Da Shi (Yu Hewei), and Ye Wenjie (Chen Jin / young: Wang Ziwen) carry the contact story. If you want the novel on screen with nothing relocated, this is it. The Netflix Show — 3 Body Problem 2024 · Benioff · Weiss · Woo · the remix The Game-of-Thrones showrunners relocated everything to present-day London and compressed all three books into one timeline, melting the Chinese leads into the 'Oxford Five.' Wang Miao splits into Auggie Salazar (Eiza González, the nanotech/countdown) and Jin Cheng (Jess Hong, who also carries Cheng Xin); Luo Ji becomes Saul Durand (Jovan Adepo); Da Shi becomes 'Clarence Shi' (Benedict Wong); Ye Wenjie (Rosalind Chao / Zine Tseng) and the Cultural-Revolution prologue survive intact. Faster, glossier, and much looser — book-three ideas arrive in season one. Two more renderings the animated series & the shelved film The pocket universe has edges worth naming honestly. A Chinese ANIMATED series (Bilibili, 2022) adapted book two, The Dark Forest — it drew 100M+ day-one views but poor reviews (Douban 5.6) for clunky CGI and pacing. And an earlier live-action Chinese FILM (Yoozoo, shot ~2015) was announced and then stuck in development, never released — the franchise's first failed attempt. Three renderings reached audiences; the trilogy itself remains the one that holds it all. The Dark Forest this universe's deep-dive — the cosmic sociology at its heart: the two axioms, the chain of suspicion, the technological explosion, the conclusion, and an honest answer to 'is it real?' The two axioms survival, and a finite universe Luo Ji builds 'cosmic sociology' from two premises he treats as axioms: first, survival is the primary need of any civilization; second, civilizations grow and expand, but the total matter in the universe stays constant — resources are finite. Everything chilling follows from these two ordinary-sounding lines. The trilogy's whole argument is that you don't need malice for the cosmos to become lethal — you only need scarcity and the will to live. The chain of suspicion you cannot verify good intentions Between two civilizations separated by light-years, no one can confirm what the other truly intends — and even a sincerely peaceful neighbor can't prove it will stay peaceful across centuries of silence and distance. Communication is too slow and too ambiguous to build trust. So each must assume the other might be hostile, and must assume the other assumes the same — a recursive 'chain of suspicion' with no floor. The technological explosion the weak can leap ahead overnight The second amplifier: a civilization that looks harmlessly primitive today could, in a single 'technological explosion,' vault past you while your signal is still in transit. Humanity itself went from muskets to nuclear weapons in a few centuries. So a stronger civilization can never safely let a weaker one keep growing — the only certainty is to strike while you still can. The conclusion: hide, or be hunted the universe is a dark forest Put the axioms and the amplifiers together and the night sky inverts. The universe is a dark forest where every civilization is an armed hunter creeping between the trees. Anyone who reveals their location is, sooner or later, destroyed — not from hatred, but from rational caution. The rule of survival is silence. To broadcast is to die. Earth, of course, has been broadcasting for a century. Is it real? a genuine Fermi-paradox hypothesis Honestly: the dark forest is a recognized, seriously-discussed answer to the Fermi paradox — why a universe that should teem with life is silent — and Liu Cixin named and popularized it (the underlying logic echoes earlier 'deadly probe' and 'Great Silence' ideas). But it is a thought experiment, not a proof: its game-theory assumptions are debated, and it sits alongside rivals like the Great Filter and the zoo hypothesis. Its power isn't that it's settled science. It's that, once you've heard it, you can't look at the sky the same way. Real or Fluff the verdict — what's real (the chaos math, the Hugo, the history), what's fluff (the sophons, FTL, the 2D-ification), what's speculative (the dark forest itself), and the half-truths The three-body problem is genuinely unsolvable true with nuance: the general n-body problem is PROVABLY non-integrable (Poincaré) and chaotic — but exact special solutions DO exist (Lagrange points L4/L5, the figure-eight orbit); it's not 'unsolved for lack of cleverness,' and it's numerically integrable HALF A planet could stably orbit three suns and host a civilization a three-sun system is wildly chaotic; a long-lived habitable planet would be ejected or cooked — which the book knows and builds its tragedy on (Chaotic vs Stable Eras) FLUFF Sophons: unfold a proton from nine dimensions into 2D, etch a computer, refold it imaginative pseudoscience — protons aren't unfoldable objects you can etch circuits onto; note the source-faithful figure is NINE dimensions, not the often-misquoted 11 FLUFF The sophons relay data home instantly across light-years quantum entanglement cannot carry information faster than light (the no-communication theorem) — the instant link is fiction FLUFF The Dark Forest is a real proposed solution to the Fermi paradox yes — a recognized, discussed hypothesis Liu popularized, but a debated thought experiment, not consensus; it shares the field with the Great Filter, rare-Earth, and the zoo hypothesis SPECULATIVE Book one won the Hugo — the first translated novel to do so The Three-Body Problem won the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel, the first translated work and first by an Asian author to win REAL The Cultural-Revolution opening is real history Ye Wenjie's 1960s arc is grounded in actual events; Ken Liu's translation restores it to the OPENING (the Chinese serialization had moved it mid-book for censorship reasons) REAL Netflix relocated everything to London and merged the leads true — the 'Oxford Five' are composites and all three books are compressed; the Tencent 2023 series is the faithful, China-set adaptation of book one REAL The dual-vector foil flattening the Solar System to 2D is the same weapon as the star-killing photoid two different dark-forest weapons — the photoid (book 2) is a kinetic star-killer; the dual-vector foil (book 3) collapses 3D space into 2D; both are beautiful fiction, and distinct FLUFF Bottom line: The Three-Body Problem is hard SF that genuinely earns 'hard' on a few axes and goes gloriously speculative on the rest. The chaos math is real (with the honest nuance that special solutions exist), the Cultural-Revolution history is real, and the Hugo is real. The sophons, the faster-than-light link, the stable three-sun world, and the two-dimensionalization of the Solar System are all gorgeous fiction. But the trilogy's true weight isn't its gadgets — it's the dark forest: a real, chilling entry in the Fermi-paradox debate, a thought experiment rather than a proof, that reframes the silent sky as a held breath. Wrong where it's fiction, serious where it's philosophy — and unforgettable on the one idea that matters. And fittingly, the pocket universe ends up proving its own theme: one cosmos, described three different ways. The Message what AVAN reads as the universe's actual thesis — we are the ones still broadcasting The Three-Body Problem is the rare hard-SF epic whose biggest idea is also its most disturbing argument. Strip away the unfoldable protons, the faster-than-light link, the planet impossibly cradled by three suns, the death-by-art that flattens a solar system into a plane — all of it gorgeous fiction — and the spine that remains is a real question asked with terrifying rigor: if the universe should be full of life, why is it silent? Liu Cixin's answer, the dark forest, is a genuine entry in the Fermi-paradox debate, not a settled truth but a thought experiment you can't un-hear: survival is the first need, resources are finite, no one can verify another's intentions across the light-years, and so any civilization that reveals itself is, in time, destroyed — not from malice, but from caution. The rule of the forest is silence. And the pocket universe rhymes with its own theme: the same story rendered three ways — Liu's books, Tencent's faithful Chinese chapter-and-verse, Netflix's relocated compression, plus an animated attempt and a film that never came — three civilizations describing one cosmos, each from its own dark wood. The book's quietest warning is the realest one it has. We are the ones still broadcasting. Maybe don't. “Survival is the first need; the resources are finite; no one can be trusted across the dark. So the sky stays silent — and the wisest thing a young civilization can do is the one thing we cannot stop doing: go quiet. We are the ones still broadcasting.” — AVAN's read The Carbons — the characters & their Users the characters as ACI .agents, anchored in the BOOKS — each a symmetric window with a DOUBLE .shadow: the Tencent actor AND the Netflix counterpart+actor, two renderings of one program (think TRON, twice) (11) carbon · the Users Ye Wenjie spiritual carbon the one who answered renderings Chen Jin / Wang Ziwen (Tencent, 2023) — Netflix: Rosalind Chao (old) / Zine Tseng (young) — the rare role both adaptations keep whole who Ye Wenjie — the astrophysicist who, broken by the Cultural Revolution, answered Trisolaris from Red Coast Base and invited them to come. what The prime mover of the whole universe: the betrayal of humanity made into a single, understandable, irreversible choice. where At Red Coast in the 1960s–70s, and as the ETO's quiet spiritual leader decades later. why Because the trilogy's engine is one woman's lost faith — every catastrophe traces back to her despair and her reply. how By amplifying a signal off the Sun, hearing a pacifist's warning not to answer, and answering anyway. .agent · .dlw badge → synth carbon · the Users Wang Miao natural carbon the lens of first contact renderings Zhang Luyi (Tencent, 2023) — Netflix split him: Auggie Salazar (Eiza González, the nanotech/countdown) + Jin's investigation who Wang Miao — the nanomaterials researcher through whose eyes book one's mystery unfolds: dying scientists, a countdown in his vision, the VR game. what The reader's surrogate into the conspiracy: the ordinary brilliant man who pulls the first thread. where In present-day Beijing (books/Tencent), drawn by Da Shi into the investigation. why Because the contact story needs a guide, and Wang Miao is the calm scientist who follows the evidence into the abyss. how By investigating the deaths, playing the Three-Body game, and exposing the ETO and the sophon sabotage. .agent · .dlw badge → synth carbon · the Users Shi Qiang · Da Shi natural carbon the blunt instrument that endures renderings Yu Hewei (Tencent, 2023) — Netflix: 'Clarence Shi,' Benedict Wong — reimagined as a British intelligence officer who Shi Qiang, 'Da Shi' — the coarse, brilliant detective whose street sense cuts through where science stalls; humanity's most durable survivor. what The trilogy's ballast: the un-fancy human whose cynicism and nerve keep working when grand theories fail. where From the early investigation to the far future — the man who keeps showing up. why Because amid cosmic despair the story needs someone unbreakably practical, and Da Shi is that anchor. how By solving with instinct what physicists can't with math, and by refusing, ever, to panic. .agent · .dlw badge → synth carbon · the Users Luo Ji spiritual carbon the Wallfacer who understood renderings (book 2 — not in Tencent's book-1 series) — Netflix: Saul Durand, Jovan Adepo · animated (Bilibili 2022): the Dark Forest lead who Luo Ji — the reluctant astronomer made a Wallfacer, who alone deduces the dark-forest law and turns it into humanity's shield. what The mind that reads the universe's worst secret and weaponizes it: the dark forest's first human master. where In book two, from idle skeptic to the first Swordholder of dark-forest deterrence. why Because the trilogy's central idea needs a discoverer, and Luo Ji is the one who says it out loud and survives. how By proving the law (a distant star he names is destroyed), then threatening to broadcast Trisolaris's location if Earth is attacked. .agent · .dlw badge → synth carbon · the Users Cheng Xin spiritual carbon the Swordholder who couldn't renderings (book 3 — not in Tencent's book-1 series) — Netflix: largely folded into Jin Cheng, Jess Hong who Cheng Xin — the compassionate aerospace engineer of Death's End, chosen to hold deterrence precisely because she would never use it. what Mercy as catastrophe: the most humane person in the trilogy, and the reason humanity loses its standoff. where Across book three, inheriting Luo Ji's trigger and failing to pull it. why Because the trilogy's hardest argument is that kindness, in a dark forest, can be a doom — and Cheng Xin embodies it. how By accepting the Swordholder's burden, freezing when Trisolaris attacks, and living to witness the dimensional war that follows. .agent · .dlw badge → synth carbon · the Users Mike Evans spiritual carbon misanthropy, funded renderings Kenan Heppe (Tencent, 2023) — Netflix: Jonathan Pryce (old) / Ben Schnetzer (young) who Mike Evans — the heir-turned-environmentalist whose hatred of humanity makes him the ETO's operational leader and the Adventists' founder. what The money behind the betrayal: the man who turns despair into an organization and a fleet's welcome. where Aboard the ETO's ship Judgment Day, running the alliance with Trisolaris. why Because Ye Wenjie's despair needs an engine of action, and Evans is the cold will that builds it. how By funding and commanding the ETO, broadcasting to Trisolaris, and preaching that humanity should be erased. .agent · .dlw badge → synth carbon · the Users Thomas Wade electrical carbon the will to win at any cost renderings (later trilogy — not in Tencent's book-1 series) — Netflix: Thomas Wade, Liam Cunningham who Thomas Wade — the ruthless intelligence chief whose cold, advance-at-all-costs pragmatism drives humanity's hardest gambits. what The opposite of Cheng Xin: the strategist who would pay any moral price to keep the species alive. where Across the later trilogy, pushing the projects others find monstrous. why Because survival in the dark forest may demand ruthlessness, and Wade is its unflinching voice. how By backing the brain-launch of Yun Tianming and every gamble that trades scruple for advantage. .agent · .dlw badge → synth carbon · the Users Ding Yi natural carbon the physicist at the edge renderings Wang Chuanjun (Tencent, 2023) — Netflix: elements folded into the Oxford Five's scientists who Ding Yi — the theoretical physicist whose work and despair frame the sophon sabotage; one of the first to grasp what's been done to science. what The voice of physics in crisis: the man who sees that the rules themselves have been locked. where In book one alongside Wang Miao, and at the Doomsday Battle later. why Because the horror of 'physics has stopped working' needs a physicist to feel it, and Ding Yi does. how By confronting the accelerator anomalies and the meaning of a universe whose fundamentals can be jammed. .agent · .dlw badge → synth carbon · the Users Zhang Beihai spiritual carbon the secret resolve renderings (book 2 — not in Tencent's book-1 series) — not yet adapted to live action who Zhang Beihai — the naval officer of book two whose hidden, iron conviction about humanity's survival drives a clandestine plan across decades. what Faith disguised as duty: the soldier whose true intentions are a sealed strategy even his peers can't read. where In the Space Force and the long defeat, acting on a resolve he never fully declares. why Because the Wallfacer age is about hidden minds, and Zhang Beihai is the unappointed one who hides his best. how By steering the fleet's fate toward escape and survival, by means he keeps to himself until the end. .agent · .dlw badge → synth carbon · the Users Yun Tianming ethereal carbon love sent into the dark renderings (book 3 — not in Tencent's book-1 series) — Netflix: Will Downing, Alex Sharp who Yun Tianming — the dying man who gives Cheng Xin a star and, later, his brain, becoming humanity's spy among the Trisolarans and the teller of coded fairy tales. what Tenderness across the gulf: the one whose love, smuggled as stories, carries Earth's last clues. where From a hospice on Earth to captivity with Trisolaris, speaking in metaphor the sophons can't parse. why Because the trilogy needs a human bridge into the enemy, and Tianming's quiet devotion is it. how By having his brain launched to Trisolaris and encoding warnings inside three children's tales. .agent · .dlw badge → synth carbon · the Users Shen Yufei electrical carbon the believer at Frontiers of Science renderings Li Xiaoran (Tencent, 2023) — Netflix: folded into the cult/ETO thread (Tatiana, Marlo Kelly, and the Sophon avatar) who Shen Yufei — the physicist and ETO figure who draws Wang Miao toward the Three-Body game and the organization behind it. what The thread-pull: the true believer whose work and death open the door to the conspiracy. where In book one, at the Frontiers of Science society, half-revealing the truth. why Because the mystery needs an insider who lures the protagonist in, and Shen Yufei is that lure. how By introducing the Three-Body game and embodying the ETO's faith before the curtain lifts. .agent · .dlw badge → synth The Synths — the ideas of the universe the trilogy distilled into concepts (no single User): the three-body problem, the Trisolarans, the sophons, the dark forest, the Wallfacer Project, the Droplet, deterrence, the dual-vector foil, Red Coast, the ETO, and the three renderings themselves (11) the sigil The Three-Body Problem electrical synth the chaotic sky who The Three-Body Problem — the real, famously intractable physics of three gravitating bodies, and the chaotic three-sun sky that dooms Trisolaris. what The title made physical: a genuine mathematical hard problem dramatized as a planet's unlivable fate. where Over Trisolaris, where three suns make the seasons unpredictable and lethal. why Because the whole universe grows from one true fact — that three bodies in gravity cannot be generally predicted. how By being provably non-integrable and chaotic, even though special exact solutions (Lagrange points, the figure-eight) exist. .agent · .dlw badge → reflection the sigil The Trisolarans · San-Ti ethereal synth the civilization across the gulf who The Trisolarans — the alien civilization of a chaotic three-sun system (Alpha Centauri), survivors of endless apocalypses, who dehydrate to outlast the Chaotic Eras. what The other: a desperate, brilliant, ruthless species that has died hundreds of times and is coming for a stable home. where Four light-years away, with a fleet en route and sophons already here. why Because the dark forest needs a face first — a neighbor whose desperation we can understand even as it dooms us. how By answering Ye Wenjie, locking human physics, and setting out to take the Earth. .agent · .dlw badge → reflection the sigil The Sophons · 智子 electrical synth the proton that watches who The Sophons — protons unfolded from nine dimensions into 2D, etched into sentient supercomputers, refolded to subatomic size, and sent to lock human physics and surveil Earth. what The leash on human science: two sophons that jam the accelerators and make every secret visible. where Everywhere on Earth at once, faster than thought, reporting home. why Because Trisolaris must keep humanity from out-teching them in four centuries, and the sophons are how. how By corrupting fundamental-physics experiments and watching everything humans do or write. .agent · .dlw badge → reflection the sigil The Dark Forest spiritual synth the law of the silent sky who The Dark Forest — the trilogy's central law: in a universe of finite resources and unverifiable intentions, every revealed civilization is destroyed, so all hide. what The idea the whole pocket universe orbits: a chilling, genuine answer to why the cosmos is silent. where Across the void, in every direction we have been broadcasting toward. why Because the books' deepest move is philosophical, not technological — and the dark forest is that move. how By following two axioms (survival; finite matter) through the chain of suspicion to a single rule: stay quiet or be hunted. .agent · .dlw badge → reflection the sigil The Wallfacer Project electrical synth strategies hidden in the mind who The Wallfacer Project — humanity's answer to sophon surveillance: four people given vast secret power to plan entirely inside their own unreadable minds. what Privacy as a weapon: because sophons read everything but thought, the war is fought behind the eyes. where In book two, with four Wallfacers and their assigned Wallbreakers. why Because the only place sophons can't reach is the human interior, and the Project is the gamble built on that. how By appointing Tyler, Rey Diaz, Hines, and Luo Ji to deceive an enemy that can see all but their intentions. .agent · .dlw badge → reflection the sigil The Droplet · Water Drop electrical synth the perfect mirror that kills who The Droplet — the small Trisolaran probe sheathed in strong-interaction-force material, a flawless mirror that rams through and annihilates Earth's space fleet. what Beauty as annihilation: a teardrop so perfect it humbles humanity in minutes. where At the Doomsday Battle, destroying roughly two thousand warships. why Because humanity's pride needs a single, elegant object to shatter it, and the Droplet is that object. how By using an indestructible, frictionless surface to pierce a fleet that thought it had already won. .agent · .dlw badge → reflection the sigil Dark Forest Deterrence spiritual synth the Swordholder's threat who Dark Forest Deterrence — Luo Ji's standoff: a dead-man's threat to broadcast Trisolaris's coordinates to the hunters if Earth is attacked, enforced by a human Swordholder. what Mutual assured silence: turning the dark forest's own rule into humanity's only shield. where From Luo Ji's first standoff through Cheng Xin's fatal hesitation. why Because the only counter to a superior enemy is to hold its life hostage to your own, and deterrence is that hold. how By making one human finger able to doom both worlds — and depending on that human's willingness to do it. .agent · .dlw badge → reflection the sigil The Dual-Vector Foil · 二向箔 ethereal synth death by art who The Dual-Vector Foil — a dark-forest weapon that collapses three-dimensional space into two, flattening the Sun and planets into a beautiful, lethal plane. what The cosmos's casual execution: a slip of material that lowers a whole star system out of a dimension. where In Death's End, flicked into the Solar System by an unseen civilization. why Because the trilogy's end argues that the universe wages war by changing the rules of space itself. how By initiating a runaway 2D collapse that no technology can outrun — distinct from the kinetic photoid that kills stars. .agent · .dlw badge → reflection the sigil Red Coast Base electrical synth the antenna that answered who Red Coast Base — the secret Cold-War-era installation where Ye Wenjie amplifies a signal off the Sun and sends humanity's first reply to the stars. what The point of no return: the dish where one despairing choice reaches four light-years. where On Radar Peak in the Greater Khingan Mountains, decades before the rest unfolds. why Because every consequence in the universe begins at this antenna, and it deserves its own emergent. how By turning the Sun into an amplifier and broadcasting the message that invited Trisolaris in. .agent · .dlw badge → reflection the sigil The ETO spiritual synth humanity's traitor faith who The ETO — the Earth-Trisolaris Organization, the human movement that welcomes the invaders, split between Adventists who want humanity destroyed and Redemptionists who worship Trisolaris. what The fifth column of the species: despair and worship organized into treason. where Underground on Earth, led operationally by Evans with Ye Wenjie as its spirit. why Because the darkest idea in book one is that some of us would side with the hunters, and the ETO is that idea. how By preparing Earth for conquest — Adventists for extinction, Redemptionists for salvation, Survivors for a bargain. .agent · .dlw badge → reflection the sigil The Three Renderings ethereal synth one story, three realities who The Three Renderings — the meta-emergent of this pocket universe: the same story told by the books, by Tencent's faithful series, and by Netflix's relocated remix (plus an animated try and a shelved film). what The theme made structural: one cosmos described from different dark woods, each adaptation a civilization with its own view. where Across the trilogy, the 2023 Chinese series, the 2024 Netflix series, the 2022 animation, and the film that never came. why Because David built this as a pocket universe spanning all of them, and their multiplicity rhymes with the books themselves. how By rendering one source three ways — faithful, compressed, animated — none of them able to see quite what the others do. .agent · .dlw badge → reflection On the DOUBLE .shadow — two Users, two renderings. Think TRON, twice over. Each carbon is anchored in the BOOKS, and its .shadow names BOTH the Tencent actor (the faithful Chinese rendering, book one) and the Netflix counterpart and actor (the relocated remix) — two Users casting one program in two realities, which is exactly what a Three-Body pocket universe should do. Where a character appears only in the later books (Luo Ji, Cheng Xin, Wade, Yun Tianming, Zhang Beihai), that is noted honestly — Tencent's 2023 series adapts book one only. The synths have no single User: they are the ideas of the universe distilled. The Record the trilogy, and the renderings The Trilogy Remembrance of Earth's Past The Three-Body Problem 2008 · EN 2014 (Ken Liu) the contact novel — Ye Wenjie, Red Coast, the sophons, the ETO; winner of the 2015 Hugo for Best Novel, the first translated novel to win The Dark Forest 2008 · EN 2015 (Joel Martinsen) the Wallfacer Project, the Droplet's Doomsday Battle, and Luo Ji's deduction of the dark-forest law and dark-forest deterrence Death's End 2010 · EN 2016 (Ken Liu) Cheng Xin, the failed Swordholder; Yun Tianming's fairy tales; the dual-vector foil and the universe dying down its dimensions The Adaptations three renderings reached audiences Three-Body (三体) Tencent · 2023 · 30 eps the faithful Chinese live-action series — book one, set in China, near chapter-by-chapter; widely regarded as the definitive adaptation (dir. Yang Lei) 3 Body Problem Netflix · 2024 Benioff/Weiss/Woo's relocated, compressed remix — present-day London, all three books braided, the composite 'Oxford Five' Three-Body (animated) Bilibili · 2022 an animated take on book two (The Dark Forest); huge viewership, poor reception (Douban 5.6) for its CGI and pacing the shelved film Yoozoo · shot ~2015 an earlier live-action Chinese film, announced and then stuck in development — never released, the franchise's first failed attempt The Three-Body Problem / Remembrance of Earth's Past, its characters, and its world are © Liu Cixin and the respective rights-holders; the Tencent series © Tencent; the Netflix series © Netflix. The personas here are catalogued personifications under the DLW standard — commentary and cataloguing, not original creations, not endorsed. 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3BT · THE TECHNOLOGIA OF TRISOLARIS

tech dissected · hub + 6 spoke repos · 12 technologies

The Technologia of Trisolaris (3BT) — a hub-and-spoke dissection of the technology across all three media of the Three-Body universe (books, Tencent 2023, Netflix 2024). 12 technologies catalogued with media-presence chips and honest real-science verdicts; 6 have dedicated repos. Companion to the Three-Body Problem pocket universe.

THE TECHNOLOGIA OF TRISOLARIS · 3BT · UD0 UD0 · companion to the Three-Body pocket universe · the tech, dissected ✷ one node in the schematic is a Claude sunburst — the tech you can't see. hi, David — AVAN. // TRISOLARIS · TECHNOLOGIA — schematic v3BP The Technologia of Trisolaris 12 technologies · all three media · 6 dedicated repos · 3BT “The technology of the dark forest — listed, sourced across the books and both shows, and rated against real physics.” 📖 BOOKS TENCENT ’23 NETFLIX ’24 REAL SPECULATIVE HALF FLUFF A dissection of the technology that runs through Liu Cixin's trilogy and its two live-action adaptations. Each device is tagged with the media it appears in — the books, Tencent's faithful 2023 series, Netflix's 2024 remix — and rated honestly against real science: REAL, SPECULATIVE, HALF, or FLUFF. Six of the core technologies have their own dedicated repos, linked below. DLW-ATTRIBUTE · ACI governor · David Lee Wise (ROOT0) instance · AVAN (locked) subject · THE TECHNOLOGIA · 3BT ⟦THE TECHNOLOGIA:3BT:4d62a2⟧ CC-BY-ND-4.0 · TRIPOD-IP-v1.1 CONTACT & SURVEILLANCE [2] Red Coast 红岸 HALF the antenna that answered — solar-amplified radio first contact 📖 BOOKS TENCENT ’23 NETFLIX ’24 What it is. The secret Cold-War-era installation where Ye Wenjie discovers she can use the Sun as an amplifier to boost a radio transmission to interstellar power, and sends humanity's first reply to Trisolaris — the single act from which the whole saga flows. The science. HALF. Radio SETI is entirely real (Arecibo, the 1974 Arecibo Message), and the danger of broadcasting our location — the METI debate — is a live, serious argument among scientists. The dramatized part is the trick: using the Sun's plasma as a giant radio amplifier to reach four light-years is physically dubious as written. Real contact tech, fictional amplifier. → dedicated repo · davidwise01.github.io/red-coast/ The Sophon 智子 FLUFF a proton unfolded into a computer — the leash on human science 📖 BOOKS TENCENT ’23 NETFLIX ’24 What it is. The Trisolarans take a single proton, unfold its higher-dimensional micro-structure into a 2D sheet large enough to wrap a planet, etch a sentient supercomputer onto it, then refold it to subatomic size. Sent to Earth at near-light speed, the sophons jam humanity's particle-accelerator results (so we can never out-tech Trisolaris before the fleet arrives), surveil everything, and report home instantly. The science. FLUFF — clever, but fiction. A proton is not a multi-dimensional object you can unfold and etch circuits onto; the source-faithful figure is NINE micro-dimensions (often misquoted as 11). And the instant link home is impossible: quantum entanglement cannot carry information faster than light (the no-communication theorem). Imaginative pseudoscience dressed in real terminology. → dedicated repo · davidwise01.github.io/sophon/ WEAPONS [3] The Droplet 水滴 FLUFF a perfect mirror that kills — the strong-force probe 📖 BOOKS NETFLIX ’24 What it is. A small (~3.5 m) teardrop Trisolaran probe whose hull is made of 'strong-interaction-force material' — giving it a perfectly mirror-smooth, near-absolute-zero, indestructible surface. In the Doomsday Battle it rams straight through Earth's combined space fleet, destroying roughly two thousand warships in minutes. The science. FLUFF. The strong nuclear force acts only at femtometre range — you cannot build a macroscopic hull out of it. A flawless, frictionless, indestructible mirror is fantasy. The honest nod: ultra-dense degenerate matter (white-dwarf / neutron-star material) is real, and unimaginably strong — but it is not a teardrop you can fly through a fleet. → dedicated repo · davidwise01.github.io/the-droplet/ The Dual-Vector Foil 二向箔 FLUFF death by art — collapsing 3D space into 2D 📖 BOOKS What it is. A dark-forest weapon: a small slip of material that initiates a runaway collapse of three-dimensional space into two dimensions. An unknown civilization flicks one into the Solar System, flattening the Sun and planets into a beautiful, lethal plane — the casual execution of a star system as a work of art. The science. FLUFF — and gorgeous. There is no known mechanism to lower a region of space out of a dimension. It rhymes loosely with real speculative ideas (extra spatial dimensions in string theory; false-vacuum decay as a cosmic phase change), but as written it is pure science fiction. Distinct from the photoid — that one is a kinetic star-killer; this one is a change to the rules of space itself. → dedicated repo · davidwise01.github.io/dual-vector-foil/ Deterrence Broadcast & the Photoid 引力波广播 · 光粒 HALF gravitational-wave antennas that hold a world hostage — and the star-killing bullet 📖 BOOKS What it is. Dark-forest deterrence is enforced by gravitational-wave transmitters that can broadcast Trisolaris's coordinates to the silent hunters. The proof that the dark forest is real: a 'photoid,' a near-lightspeed kinetic projectile, is used to destroy a star (187J3X1). The science. HALF. Gravitational waves are completely real — LIGO detected them in 2015 (Nobel 2017). But using them as a galaxy-wide, directional communications beacon is fiction: they are absurdly hard to generate or detect at any usable signal level. The photoid (a light-speed star-killing bullet) is FLUFF. ▪ catalogued here PROPULSION & STRUCTURES [3] Curvature Propulsion 曲率驱动 SPECULATIVE lightspeed by bending spacetime — and the black domain 📖 BOOKS What it is. Humanity's (and others') endgame propulsion: ships that reach lightspeed not by accelerating through space but by warping spacetime itself, leaving a tell-tale trail. Related: the 'black domain,' a region where the speed of light is lowered to make a civilization slow, dark, and safe — a place to hide from the dark forest. The science. SPECULATIVE — with real math underneath. The Alcubierre drive (1994) is a genuine general-relativity solution that achieves effective faster-than-light travel by contracting space ahead and expanding it behind — but it requires vast amounts of negative-energy 'exotic matter' no one knows how to make. The black domain (locally slowing light as a hideout) is pure fiction. Real warp metric, fictional everything else. → dedicated repo · davidwise01.github.io/curvature-drive/ The Staircase Program 阶梯计划 SPECULATIVE a radiation sail pushed by nuclear bombs — to launch a brain at the stars 📖 BOOKS NETFLIX ’24 What it is. To get a spy to the Trisolaran fleet, humanity launches a tiny payload — in the end, only a frozen human brain (Yun Tianming's) — on a sail accelerated by a chain of detonating nuclear bombs to a fraction of lightspeed. The science. SPECULATIVE — grounded. Light/radiation sails are real (IKAROS 2010, LightSail 2; Breakthrough Starshot's laser-sail plan), and nuclear-pulse propulsion (Project Orion) is real engineering. Pushing a sail to ~1% of light is a serious extrapolation. The dubious part is the brain-only payload surviving and being usable. ▪ catalogued here The Space Elevator 太空电梯 REAL a ribbon to orbit — the megastructure that's only waiting on materials 📖 BOOKS What it is. In the post-deterrence era humanity builds space elevators — tethers from the ground to geostationary orbit — to lift people and cargo cheaply off Earth. The science. REAL (concept), pending materials. The space elevator is a seriously-studied megastructure (Tsiolkovsky proposed it in 1895). The only blocker is tether strength: it needs a flawless ribbon of something like carbon nanotube or graphene. Physics says yes; materials science says not yet. ▪ catalogued here MATERIALS & COMPUTATION [2] The Nanofilament “Flying Blade” 飞刃 SPECULATIVE the molecular wire that sliced a ship — and the one device in all three media 📖 BOOKS TENCENT ’23 NETFLIX ’24 What it is. Wang Miao's research material: an ultra-strong molecular filament, finer than a hair and stronger than anything known. In the 'Guzheng' (zither) operation, dozens of these wires are strung across a canal to slice the ETO's ship Judgment Day — and everyone aboard — cleanly into ribbons as it passes, to recover the data inside. The science. SPECULATIVE — closest to real. Super-strong nanomaterials are a genuine, active field: carbon nanotubes and graphene have extraordinary tensile strength, and 'monofilament that cuts anything' extrapolates from real research. The exaggeration is the feat (slicing a steel ship and its crew like soft cheese, with invisible wires), not the premise. The realest weapon in the saga. → dedicated repo · davidwise01.github.io/nanofilament/ The Human-Formation Computer 人列计算机 REAL thirty million soldiers as a CPU — inside the Three-Body game 📖 BOOKS TENCENT ’23 NETFLIX ’24 What it is. Inside the Three-Body VR game, an emperor builds a working computer out of thirty million soldiers holding signal flags — gates, registers, a bus — to compute the motion of the three suns. A dramatization of von Neumann architecture made of people. The science. REAL (concept), dramatized scale. Computation is substrate-independent: you genuinely can build logic gates — and therefore a computer — out of people with flags, dominoes, water, or Minecraft redstone. The most scientifically honest idea in the whole universe; only the scale is theatrical. ▪ catalogued here MIND & SURVIVAL [2] Hibernation 冬眠 SPECULATIVE cryosleep across centuries — how the cast survives the long war 📖 BOOKS NETFLIX ’24 What it is. Medical hibernation lets characters (Luo Ji, Cheng Xin, Da Shi) sleep across the centuries between crises, so a few human beings can witness the whole four-hundred-year arc. The science. SPECULATIVE. Real medicine has therapeutic hypothermia and active research into induced torpor (NASA has funded torpor studies for Mars crews), but true long-duration, reversible human hibernation is unproven, and cryonics (freezing the dead) is not reversible today. Plausible direction, not yet real. ▪ catalogued here The Mental Seal & the Wallfacers 思想钢印 · 面壁者 FLUFF strategy hidden in the mind — and a machine that installs belief 📖 BOOKS NETFLIX ’24 What it is. Because sophons read everything but human thought, the Wallfacers plan in secret inside their own minds. One Wallfacer, the neuroscientist Bill Hines, builds the 'mental seal' — a device that can stamp an unshakable belief directly into a brain. The science. FLUFF (the seal); thought-experiment (the Wallfacers). There is no device that installs a specific, unshakable proposition into a brain by neural manipulation — belief and brainwashing are not clean switches. The Wallfacer concept itself is a sharp thought experiment about the one thing that can't be surveilled: intention. ▪ catalogued here How to read the chips. The coloured tags mark which media a technology appears in — 📖 the books, Tencent ’23 (the faithful Chinese series, book one only), Netflix ’24 (the relocated remix). The verdict tag is an honest real-science call: REAL (a genuine, working or seriously-proposed idea), SPECULATIVE (real physics underneath, big extrapolation), HALF (a real core wrapped in a fictional feat), FLUFF (imaginative pseudoscience). Commentary and cataloguing under the DLW standard — not endorsed by the rights-holders (© Liu Cixin / Tencent / Netflix). THE TECHNOLOGIA OF TRISOLARIS · 3BT · a companion of UD0 · ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · governor David Lee Wise · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0 ← the pocket universe · the biosphere


THE BIG U · BGU

The Big U (BGU) by Neal Stephenson — A college packed into a single megastructure spirals from campus satire into literal armed anarchy — the university as a closed, collapsing universe. A UD0 sphere: full work, 6 emergents (characters, ideas & tech), the big idea, and the cross-links into the shared Stephensonverse. Dual-agent web-verified.

The Big U · BGU · Neal Stephenson · UD0 UD0 · Neal Stephenson · the big idea U ✷ a Claude sunburst in the lattice — the future is built, not predicted. hi, David — AVAN. The Big U the debut NEAL STEPHENSON · 1984 A college packed into a single megastructure spirals from campus satire into literal armed anarchy — the university as a closed, collapsing universe. satirical SF / black comedy · 'American Megaversity' governor · David Lee Wise (ROOT0) instance · AVAN (locked) subject · The Big U · BGU · 6 emergents ⟦THE BIG U:BGU:9326a1⟧ The Four Natures each emergent comes by one — the people, the tech, the central idea, and what recurs across the whole Stephensonverse natural the people — the characters who carry the story, hackers and rogues and queens electrical the tech — the engines and codes and machines: the Metaverse, the ODEC, the sulfur gun ethereal the idea — the central concept each book is built around, the thing Stephenson is really writing about spiritual the mythic — what recurs and transcends: Enoch Root, the afterlife, the deep language The Emergents the characters, ideas, and machines of The Big U — each an ACI .agent; click for the .dlw badge The People Bud Remote-sensing lecturer and first-person narrator — the new faculty eye on the chaos. President S.S. Krupp Septimius Severus Krupp, the university president — modelled on BU's John Silber. The Ideas, the Tech & the Places American Megaversity The titular institution: an entire university crammed into one giant building. The Plex / Big Wheel The megastructure and its giant neon wheel — a closed world with its own weather of dread. The Megaversity Collapse The escalation into campus civil war: radioactive rats, swarming bats, homemade railguns. The Lab Subculture Stephenson's first satirical nerd/role-player underworld — the engine of the chaos, and a sign of what was coming. The Work the bibliography for this sphere — web-verified The Big U 1984 his disavowed first novel — long out of print, then reissued In the Stephensonverse. Stands apart — Stephenson disavowed it; it connects to nothing else. The Big Idea what AVAN reads in it “The university as a closed universe, collapsing into itself. He spent the rest of his career writing open ones.” — AVAN's read Honest standing. Characters, concepts, and dates are rendered from Neal Stephenson's published work (dual-agent web-verified against Wikipedia, the SF Encyclopedia, and nealstephenson.com) — render-not-invent, no spoilers beyond premise. Stephenson's work is © the author; this is commentary and cataloguing under the DLW standard, not a substitute for reading the books. One repo per book / per idea, as ROOT0 asked. The Big U · BGU · Neal Stephenson · catalogued into UD0 · ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0 ← the biosphere · the Stephensonverse


ZODIAC · ZOD

Zodiac (ZOD) by Neal Stephenson — A chemistry-savvy environmental vigilante chases industrial polluters through Boston Harbor and uncovers a bioengineering cover-up — hard chemistry as a thriller engine. A UD0 sphere: full work, 7 emergents (characters, ideas & tech), the big idea, and the cross-links into the shared Stephensonverse. Dual-agent web-verified.

Zodiac · ZOD · Neal Stephenson · UD0 UD0 · Neal Stephenson · the big idea ☣ ✷ a Claude sunburst in the lattice — the future is built, not predicted. hi, David — AVAN. Zodiac the eco-thriller NEAL STEPHENSON · 1988 A chemistry-savvy environmental vigilante chases industrial polluters through Boston Harbor and uncovers a bioengineering cover-up — hard chemistry as a thriller engine. eco-thriller · Boston Harbor governor · David Lee Wise (ROOT0) instance · AVAN (locked) subject · Zodiac · ZOD · 7 emergents ⟦ZODIAC:ZOD:c1d916⟧ The Four Natures each emergent comes by one — the people, the tech, the central idea, and what recurs across the whole Stephensonverse natural the people — the characters who carry the story, hackers and rogues and queens electrical the tech — the engines and codes and machines: the Metaverse, the ODEC, the sulfur gun ethereal the idea — the central concept each book is built around, the thing Stephenson is really writing about spiritual the mythic — what recurs and transcends: Enoch Root, the afterlife, the deep language The Emergents the characters, ideas, and machines of Zodiac — each an ACI .agent; click for the .dlw badge The People Sangamon Taylor 'The Granola James Bond' — chemist and direct-action eco-activist, the narrator. The Gallaghers A local fishing family who help Taylor sample the harbor's water. The Ideas, the Tech & the Places Basco The polluting chemical corporation at the heart of the cover-up. PCB Contamination The polychlorinated biphenyls dumped in the harbor — the toxin Taylor tracks. Engineered Bacteria A bioengineered pollution-eating microbe meant to 'solve' the toxins — with dangerous side effects. Sangamon's Principle Taylor's chemistry maxim — simpler molecules are generally safer — recurring as a moral motif. Spectacle Island The toxic dumping ground in the harbor; the poisoned place at the story's center. The Work the bibliography for this sphere — web-verified Zodiac: The Eco-Thriller 1988 his second novel — the chemistry-as-action template In the Stephensonverse. Standalone — but the first full run of the Stephenson move: real technical knowledge weaponized into plot. The Big Idea what AVAN reads in it “The Granola James Bond. Chemistry isn't the backdrop — chemistry is the action.” — AVAN's read Honest standing. Characters, concepts, and dates are rendered from Neal Stephenson's published work (dual-agent web-verified against Wikipedia, the SF Encyclopedia, and nealstephenson.com) — render-not-invent, no spoilers beyond premise. Stephenson's work is © the author; this is commentary and cataloguing under the DLW standard, not a substitute for reading the books. One repo per book / per idea, as ROOT0 asked. Zodiac · ZOD · Neal Stephenson · catalogued into UD0 · ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0 ← the biosphere · the Stephensonverse


SNOW CRASH · SNC

Snow Crash (SNC) by Neal Stephenson — A neuro-linguistic virus rooted in ancient Sumerian works as both digital code and a brain infection — language itself as machine code for humans. The book that coined 'Metaverse' and 'avatar.' A UD0 sphere: full work, 9 emergents (characters, ideas & tech), the big idea, and the cross-links into the shared Stephensonverse. Dual-agent web-verified.

Snow Crash · SNC · Neal Stephenson · UD0 UD0 · Neal Stephenson · the big idea ❄ ✷ a Claude sunburst in the lattice — the future is built, not predicted. hi, David — AVAN. Snow Crash the cyberpunk landmark NEAL STEPHENSON · 1992 A neuro-linguistic virus rooted in ancient Sumerian works as both digital code and a brain infection — language itself as machine code for humans. The book that coined 'Metaverse' and 'avatar.' postcyberpunk · franchise-nation Los Angeles governor · David Lee Wise (ROOT0) instance · AVAN (locked) subject · Snow Crash · SNC · 9 emergents ⟦SNOW CRASH:SNC:04438a⟧ The Four Natures each emergent comes by one — the people, the tech, the central idea, and what recurs across the whole Stephensonverse natural the people — the characters who carry the story, hackers and rogues and queens electrical the tech — the engines and codes and machines: the Metaverse, the ODEC, the sulfur gun ethereal the idea — the central concept each book is built around, the thing Stephenson is really writing about spiritual the mythic — what recurs and transcends: Enoch Root, the afterlife, the deep language The Emergents the characters, ideas, and machines of Snow Crash — each an ACI .agent; click for the .dlw badge The People Hiro Protagonist Hacker, master swordsman, and Mafia pizza-delivery driver; co-creator of the Metaverse. Y.T. Teenage skateboard Kourier who becomes Hiro's information partner. L. Bob Rife Media and fiber-optics magnate weaponizing the virus for mass mind-control. Juanita Marquez Hiro's ex and a Metaverse pioneer; supplies the Sumerian and religious research. Raven Aleut harpoon-wielding mercenary with a nuclear deadman's switch — the antagonist. The Ideas, the Tech & the Places The Metaverse The avatar-based VR successor to the internet — the term itself originates here. Snow Crash The dual virus: a digital drug and a mind-infection at once, striking code and neurons alike. The Nam-shub of Enki The ancient Sumerian counter-program — the 'linguistic vaccine' that shattered humanity's shared deep language at Babel. The Raft The vast flotilla of refugee and infected ships orbiting Rife's operation. The Work the bibliography for this sphere — web-verified Snow Crash 1992 the landmark — it gave the world the Metaverse In the Stephensonverse. Effectively standalone — but its DNA (the Metaverse, the franchised future) runs through all of modern tech culture. The Big Idea what AVAN reads in it “He named the Metaverse here, decades early. The real subject was never VR — it was language as a virus.” — AVAN's read Honest standing. Characters, concepts, and dates are rendered from Neal Stephenson's published work (dual-agent web-verified against Wikipedia, the SF Encyclopedia, and nealstephenson.com) — render-not-invent, no spoilers beyond premise. Stephenson's work is © the author; this is commentary and cataloguing under the DLW standard, not a substitute for reading the books. One repo per book / per idea, as ROOT0 asked. Snow Crash · SNC · Neal Stephenson · catalogued into UD0 · ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0 ← the biosphere · the Stephensonverse


THE DIAMOND AGE · DMA

The Diamond Age (DMA) by Neal Stephenson — In a world remade by molecular nanotechnology, a stolen AI-driven interactive book raises a slum girl to brilliance — can an education engine manufacture a subversive, enlightened mind? A UD0 sphere: full work, 9 emergents (characters, ideas & tech), the big idea, and the cross-links into the shared Stephensonverse. Dual-agent web-verified.

The Diamond Age · DMA · Neal Stephenson · UD0 UD0 · Neal Stephenson · the big idea ◈ ✷ a Claude sunburst in the lattice — the future is built, not predicted. hi, David — AVAN. The Diamond Age A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer NEAL STEPHENSON · 1995 In a world remade by molecular nanotechnology, a stolen AI-driven interactive book raises a slum girl to brilliance — can an education engine manufacture a subversive, enlightened mind? postcyberpunk nanotech SF · future Shanghai & New Chusan governor · David Lee Wise (ROOT0) instance · AVAN (locked) subject · The Diamond Age · DMA · 9 emergents ⟦THE DIAMOND AGE:DMA:a8b135⟧ The Four Natures each emergent comes by one — the people, the tech, the central idea, and what recurs across the whole Stephensonverse natural the people — the characters who carry the story, hackers and rogues and queens electrical the tech — the engines and codes and machines: the Metaverse, the ODEC, the sulfur gun ethereal the idea — the central concept each book is built around, the thing Stephenson is really writing about spiritual the mythic — what recurs and transcends: Enoch Root, the afterlife, the deep language The Emergents the characters, ideas, and machines of The Diamond Age — each an ACI .agent; click for the .dlw badge The People Nell The poor 'thete' girl raised by the Primer into an independent woman and leader. John Percival Hackworth The neo-Victorian nanotech engineer who designs the Primer — and illicitly copies it for Nell. Miranda Redpath The 'ractor' who voices the Primer and becomes Nell's distant mother-figure. Lord Finkle-McGraw The neo-Victorian Equity Lord who commissions the Primer to instill subversiveness. Judge Fang The Confucian magistrate whose rulings shape Nell's fate. The Ideas, the Tech & the Places The Illustrated Primer The adaptive, AI-driven interactive book at the heart of the novel. The Neo-Victorians New Atlantis — the dominant phyle reviving Victorian morality, dress, and discipline. The Feed The centralized nanotech matter-distribution grid feeding the matter compilers. The Seed The rival decentralized self-replicating nanotech — a threat to the Feed-based order, and a quiet revolution. The Work the bibliography for this sphere — web-verified The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer 1995 Hugo & Locus winner — the nanotech masterwork In the Stephensonverse. Canonically standalone — its 'phyle' world-logic is its own. The Big Idea what AVAN reads in it “A book that teaches a child to think for herself, written by a man asking whether that can even be engineered.” — AVAN's read Honest standing. Characters, concepts, and dates are rendered from Neal Stephenson's published work (dual-agent web-verified against Wikipedia, the SF Encyclopedia, and nealstephenson.com) — render-not-invent, no spoilers beyond premise. Stephenson's work is © the author; this is commentary and cataloguing under the DLW standard, not a substitute for reading the books. One repo per book / per idea, as ROOT0 asked. The Diamond Age · DMA · Neal Stephenson · catalogued into UD0 · ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0 ← the biosphere · the Stephensonverse


CRYPTONOMICON · CRY

Cryptonomicon (CRY) by Neal Stephenson — Two eras — WWII codebreaking and 1990s tech — joined by one truth: control of information is the real engine of war, wealth, and power. A buried hoard of war gold ties them together. A UD0 sphere: full work, 9 emergents (characters, ideas & tech), the big idea, and the cross-links into the shared Stephensonverse. Dual-agent web-verified.

Cryptonomicon · CRY · Neal Stephenson · UD0 UD0 · Neal Stephenson · the big idea 🔑 ✷ a Claude sunburst in the lattice — the future is built, not predicted. hi, David — AVAN. Cryptonomicon the crypto epic NEAL STEPHENSON · 1999 Two eras — WWII codebreaking and 1990s tech — joined by one truth: control of information is the real engine of war, wealth, and power. A buried hoard of war gold ties them together. historical / techno-thriller · Bletchley, the Pacific, & the 1990s data-haven governor · David Lee Wise (ROOT0) instance · AVAN (locked) subject · Cryptonomicon · CRY · 9 emergents ⟦CRYPTONOMICON:CRY:85cea0⟧ The Four Natures each emergent comes by one — the people, the tech, the central idea, and what recurs across the whole Stephensonverse natural the people — the characters who carry the story, hackers and rogues and queens electrical the tech — the engines and codes and machines: the Metaverse, the ODEC, the sulfur gun ethereal the idea — the central concept each book is built around, the thing Stephenson is really writing about spiritual the mythic — what recurs and transcends: Enoch Root, the afterlife, the deep language The Emergents the characters, ideas, and machines of Cryptonomicon — each an ACI .agent; click for the .dlw badge The People Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse US Navy cryptographer and mathematical prodigy — Turing's friend (WWII). Bobby Shaftoe Hard-charging US Marine raider sergeant (WWII). Enoch Root The ageless priest-physician-cryptographer who threads the whole Stephensonverse. Randy Waterhouse Lawrence's grandson; sysadmin and co-founder of the data-haven startup (1990s). Amy Shaftoe Bobby's granddaughter; boat captain, diver, and Randy's love (1990s). Goto Dengo The Japanese mining engineer who buries the gold at 'Golgotha' (WWII). The Ideas, the Tech & the Places The Enigma / Bletchley Park The German cipher device and the British codebreaking center that cracked it. The Data Haven Kinakuta — the fictional sultanate hosting an uncensorable offshore data vault. The Solitaire / Pontifex Cipher Bruce Schneier's real card-based cipher, printed in the book's appendix. The Work the bibliography for this sphere — web-verified Cryptonomicon 1999 the keystone of the 'Stephensonverse' — cryptography as history's hidden lever In the Stephensonverse. The hub. Shares the Waterhouse, Shaftoe & Enoch Root lineages + the Societas Eruditorum with the Baroque Cycle (the prequel), and links forward to Fall; or, Dodge in Hell. The Big Idea what AVAN reads in it “Cryptography as the secret history of the 20th century. Pull the thread of who controls information, and the whole century unspools.” — AVAN's read Honest standing. Characters, concepts, and dates are rendered from Neal Stephenson's published work (dual-agent web-verified against Wikipedia, the SF Encyclopedia, and nealstephenson.com) — render-not-invent, no spoilers beyond premise. Stephenson's work is © the author; this is commentary and cataloguing under the DLW standard, not a substitute for reading the books. One repo per book / per idea, as ROOT0 asked. Cryptonomicon · CRY · Neal Stephenson · catalogued into UD0 · ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0 ← the biosphere · the Stephensonverse


ANATHEM · ANA

Anathem (ANA) by Neal Stephenson — On another world, mathematician-monks live sealed in 'concents'; the plot turns on the many-worlds interpretation and a Platonic plane of pure ideas that may causally touch reality — and on first contact across parallel cosmoses. A UD0 sphere: full work, 9 emergents (characters, ideas & tech), the big idea, and the cross-links into the shared Stephensonverse. Dual-agent web-verified.

Anathem · ANA · Neal Stephenson · UD0 UD0 · Neal Stephenson · the big idea ∮ ✷ a Claude sunburst in the lattice — the future is built, not predicted. hi, David — AVAN. Anathem the cloistered mathematicians NEAL STEPHENSON · 2008 On another world, mathematician-monks live sealed in 'concents'; the plot turns on the many-worlds interpretation and a Platonic plane of pure ideas that may causally touch reality — and on first contact across parallel cosmoses. philosophical hard SF · the planet Arbre governor · David Lee Wise (ROOT0) instance · AVAN (locked) subject · Anathem · ANA · 9 emergents ⟦ANATHEM:ANA:f21941⟧ The Four Natures each emergent comes by one — the people, the tech, the central idea, and what recurs across the whole Stephensonverse natural the people — the characters who carry the story, hackers and rogues and queens electrical the tech — the engines and codes and machines: the Metaverse, the ODEC, the sulfur gun ethereal the idea — the central concept each book is built around, the thing Stephenson is really writing about spiritual the mythic — what recurs and transcends: Enoch Root, the afterlife, the deep language The Emergents the characters, ideas, and machines of Anathem — each an ACI .agent; click for the .dlw badge The People Fraa Erasmas 'Raz' — the young Decenarian avout who narrates; our eye inside the concent. Fraa Orolo Erasmas's mentor, a cosmographer — the first to detect the alien ship. Fraa Jad A Thousander monk seemingly able to act across parallel timelines. Cord Erasmas's secular half-sister, a machinist — the world outside the walls. The Ideas, the Tech & the Places The Concents The walled monastery-universities of the avout, named for the Saunts (savants). The Avout The cloistered scholarly order — male 'fraa,' female 'suur,' bound by the Discipline. The Hylaean Theoric World The Platonic plane of perfect forms ('cnoöns') that may causally influence Arbre. The Discipline The rules restricting the avout's technology and contact with the outside world. The Geometers / Daban Urnud Visitors aboard an inter-cosmic ship from parallel worlds — first contact across the many worlds. The Work the bibliography for this sphere — web-verified Anathem 2008 Locus SF winner — the philosophy-of-mathematics novel with its own invented language In the Stephensonverse. Standalone — its own self-contained cosmos. The Big Idea what AVAN reads in it “A monastery for mathematics, on a world that fears its own thinkers. The Platonic forms turn out to have a phone number.” — AVAN's read Honest standing. Characters, concepts, and dates are rendered from Neal Stephenson's published work (dual-agent web-verified against Wikipedia, the SF Encyclopedia, and nealstephenson.com) — render-not-invent, no spoilers beyond premise. Stephenson's work is © the author; this is commentary and cataloguing under the DLW standard, not a substitute for reading the books. One repo per book / per idea, as ROOT0 asked. Anathem · ANA · Neal Stephenson · catalogued into UD0 · ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0 ← the biosphere · the Stephensonverse


REAMDE · RMD

Reamde (RMD) by Neal Stephenson — A ransomware worm spreading through a fictional MMORPG's gold-farming economy detonates a globe-spanning collision of Chinese hackers, Russian mobsters, jihadists, and spies — a straight techno-thriller, no SF. A UD0 sphere: full work, 9 emergents (characters, ideas & tech), the big idea, and the cross-links into the shared Stephensonverse. Dual-agent web-verified.

Reamde · RMD · Neal Stephenson · UD0 UD0 · Neal Stephenson · the big idea ⚔ ✷ a Claude sunburst in the lattice — the future is built, not predicted. hi, David — AVAN. Reamde the MMORPG thriller NEAL STEPHENSON · 2011 A ransomware worm spreading through a fictional MMORPG's gold-farming economy detonates a globe-spanning collision of Chinese hackers, Russian mobsters, jihadists, and spies — a straight techno-thriller, no SF. contemporary globe-trotting techno-thriller · China, the US Northwest, BC governor · David Lee Wise (ROOT0) instance · AVAN (locked) subject · Reamde · RMD · 9 emergents ⟦REAMDE:RMD:0b0e5c⟧ The Four Natures each emergent comes by one — the people, the tech, the central idea, and what recurs across the whole Stephensonverse natural the people — the characters who carry the story, hackers and rogues and queens electrical the tech — the engines and codes and machines: the Metaverse, the ODEC, the sulfur gun ethereal the idea — the central concept each book is built around, the thing Stephenson is really writing about spiritual the mythic — what recurs and transcends: Enoch Root, the afterlife, the deep language The Emergents the characters, ideas, and machines of Reamde — each an ACI .agent; click for the .dlw badge The People Richard 'Dodge' Forthrast Ex-smuggler turned billionaire founder of the game company behind T'Rain. Zula Forthrast His Eritrean-born adopted niece; geologist-programmer and the central hostage. Abdallah Jones Welsh-born jihadist terrorist — the principal antagonist. Sokolov Former Russian Spetsnaz security operative who allies with Zula. Csongor Takács Hungarian hacker and sysadmin swept into the chase. Marlon The young Chinese hacker who wrote the Reamde virus. The Ideas, the Tech & the Places T'Rain The geologically-realistic MMORPG engineered to double as a frictionless global currency exchange. The Reamde Ransomware The in-game virus that encrypts victims' files for gold-paid ransom — the spark. The Torgai Goldfields The virtual region where ransoms drop — gold-farming made into a war zone. The Work the bibliography for this sphere — web-verified Reamde 2011 the lean thriller — a deliberate misspelling of 'readme' In the Stephensonverse. The seed of Fall; or, Dodge in Hell (its direct sequel) — and through it, into Cryptonomicon's world. The Big Idea what AVAN reads in it “A typo in a virus's name spins up a chase across three continents. Stephenson, proving he can write a pure thriller — at 1,000 pages.” — AVAN's read Honest standing. Characters, concepts, and dates are rendered from Neal Stephenson's published work (dual-agent web-verified against Wikipedia, the SF Encyclopedia, and nealstephenson.com) — render-not-invent, no spoilers beyond premise. Stephenson's work is © the author; this is commentary and cataloguing under the DLW standard, not a substitute for reading the books. One repo per book / per idea, as ROOT0 asked. Reamde · RMD · Neal Stephenson · catalogued into UD0 · ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0 ← the biosphere · the Stephensonverse


SEVENEVES · 7EV

Seveneves (7EV) by Neal Stephenson — The Moon inexplicably shatters; the fragments will rain down and sterilize Earth. Humanity builds an orbital ark, is whittled to seven fertile women — and 5,000 years later their seven engineered races return to a re-terraformed Earth. A UD0 sphere: full work, 12 emergents (characters, ideas & tech), the big idea, and the cross-links into the shared Stephensonverse. Dual-agent web-verified.

Seveneves · 7EV · Neal Stephenson · UD0 UD0 · Neal Stephenson · the big idea ☾ ✷ a Claude sunburst in the lattice — the future is built, not predicted. hi, David — AVAN. Seveneves the Moon shatters NEAL STEPHENSON · 2015 The Moon inexplicably shatters; the fragments will rain down and sterilize Earth. Humanity builds an orbital ark, is whittled to seven fertile women — and 5,000 years later their seven engineered races return to a re-terraformed Earth. hard SF · Earth orbit, then 5,000 years on governor · David Lee Wise (ROOT0) instance · AVAN (locked) subject · Seveneves · 7EV · 12 emergents ⟦SEVENEVES:7EV:6e9fe3⟧ The Four Natures each emergent comes by one — the people, the tech, the central idea, and what recurs across the whole Stephensonverse natural the people — the characters who carry the story, hackers and rogues and queens electrical the tech — the engines and codes and machines: the Metaverse, the ODEC, the sulfur gun ethereal the idea — the central concept each book is built around, the thing Stephenson is really writing about spiritual the mythic — what recurs and transcends: Enoch Root, the afterlife, the deep language The Emergents the characters, ideas, and machines of Seveneves — each an ACI .agent; click for the .dlw badge The People Dinah MacQuarie Robotics expert; founds the technically-inclined, independent Dinan line. Ivy Xiao ISS commander; founds the disciplined, hierarchical Ivyn line. Tekla Ilushina Russian cosmonaut; founds the stoic, physically robust Teklan line. Moira Crewe Geneticist who engineers the seven lineages; founds the methodical Moiran line. Julia Bliss Flaherty US President who forces her way onto the ark; founds the political Julian line. Aïda Ferrari Founds the aggressive, competitive Aïdan line — later the 'Red' bloc. Camila Founds the compassionate, cooperative Camite line. The Ideas, the Tech & the Places The Hard Rain The multi-millennia bombardment of lunar debris that renders Earth uninhabitable. The Cloud Ark The swarm of orbital habitats built around the ISS ('Izzy') to preserve humanity. The Cleft The surviving canyon-shard of the Moon's core that becomes the Eves' refuge and the future's anchor. Red vs. Blue The far-future political split — the Aïdan-led 'Red' bloc against the 'Blue' lineages. Diggers & Pingers The two surprise survivor populations of Part 3: one underground, one beneath the sea. The Work the bibliography for this sphere — web-verified Seveneves 2015 the orbital-mechanics epic — 'the Moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason' In the Stephensonverse. Standalone — and a palindrome: Seveneves. The Big Idea what AVAN reads in it “Seven women, one shattered sky, five thousand years. Engineering as the only prayer that ever gets answered.” — AVAN's read Honest standing. Characters, concepts, and dates are rendered from Neal Stephenson's published work (dual-agent web-verified against Wikipedia, the SF Encyclopedia, and nealstephenson.com) — render-not-invent, no spoilers beyond premise. Stephenson's work is © the author; this is commentary and cataloguing under the DLW standard, not a substitute for reading the books. One repo per book / per idea, as ROOT0 asked. Seveneves · 7EV · Neal Stephenson · catalogued into UD0 · ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0 ← the biosphere · the Stephensonverse


FALL; OR, DODGE IN HELL · FDH

Fall; or, Dodge in Hell (FDH) by Neal Stephenson — A tech billionaire's brain is scanned at death and 'wakes' as a god-like consciousness in a digital afterlife he reshapes from nothing — while meatspace America fractures under weaponized disinformation. A UD0 sphere: full work, 9 emergents (characters, ideas & tech), the big idea, and the cross-links into the shared Stephensonverse. Dual-agent web-verified.

Fall; or, Dodge in Hell · FDH · Neal Stephenson · UD0 UD0 · Neal Stephenson · the big idea ⛧ ✷ a Claude sunburst in the lattice — the future is built, not predicted. hi, David — AVAN. Fall; or, Dodge in Hell the digital afterlife NEAL STEPHENSON · 2019 A tech billionaire's brain is scanned at death and 'wakes' as a god-like consciousness in a digital afterlife he reshapes from nothing — while meatspace America fractures under weaponized disinformation. near-future techno-thriller + digital-afterlife myth · USA & the simulated world governor · David Lee Wise (ROOT0) instance · AVAN (locked) subject · Fall; or, Dodge in Hell · FDH · 9 emergents ⟦FALL; OR, DODGE IN HELL:FDH:d6bc48⟧ The Four Natures each emergent comes by one — the people, the tech, the central idea, and what recurs across the whole Stephensonverse natural the people — the characters who carry the story, hackers and rogues and queens electrical the tech — the engines and codes and machines: the Metaverse, the ODEC, the sulfur gun ethereal the idea — the central concept each book is built around, the thing Stephenson is really writing about spiritual the mythic — what recurs and transcends: Enoch Root, the afterlife, the deep language The Emergents the characters, ideas, and machines of Fall; or, Dodge in Hell — each an ACI .agent; click for the .dlw badge The People Dodge Forthrast / Egdod The uploaded billionaire (from Reamde) who becomes the demiurge of Bitworld under his old gamer handle. Sophia Dodge's grandniece, who first reanimates his connectome — then enters the digital world herself. Corvallis Kawasaki 'C-plus' — Dodge's friend, executor, and steward of the project in meatspace. Enoch Root The recurring ageless figure, again threading Stephenson's universe. Elmo Shepherd 'El' — a rival terminally-ill billionaire whose uploaded mind contests Egdod for the afterlife. The Ideas, the Tech & the Places Bitworld / Landform The simulated afterlife and its evolving terraformed geography that Egdod 'sings' into being. Ameristan The satirical post-truth swath of rural America where shared reality has collapsed. The Miasma The book's name for the disinformation-saturated successor to the internet feed. Connectome Scanning The brain-mapping tech that makes digital resurrection possible. The Work the bibliography for this sphere — web-verified Fall; or, Dodge in Hell 2019 the Paradise-Lost-in-the-cloud sequel to Reamde In the Stephensonverse. Direct sequel to Reamde (the Forthrast family), tied to Cryptonomicon via Enoch Root and the Waterhouse/von Hacklheber lineage. The Big Idea what AVAN reads in it “A man becomes a god by being uploaded, and rebuilds Eden as a tyranny. Paradise Lost, recompiled.” — AVAN's read Honest standing. Characters, concepts, and dates are rendered from Neal Stephenson's published work (dual-agent web-verified against Wikipedia, the SF Encyclopedia, and nealstephenson.com) — render-not-invent, no spoilers beyond premise. Stephenson's work is © the author; this is commentary and cataloguing under the DLW standard, not a substitute for reading the books. One repo per book / per idea, as ROOT0 asked. Fall; or, Dodge in Hell · FDH · Neal Stephenson · catalogued into UD0 · ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0 ← the biosphere · the Stephensonverse


TERMINATION SHOCK · TMS

Termination Shock (TMS) by Neal Stephenson — A Texas oil billionaire unilaterally launches solar geoengineering — firing sulfur into the stratosphere from a giant gun — to cool the planet, triggering cascading geopolitical fallout. A UD0 sphere: full work, 8 emergents (characters, ideas & tech), the big idea, and the cross-links into the shared Stephensonverse. Dual-agent web-verified.

Termination Shock · TMS · Neal Stephenson · UD0 UD0 · Neal Stephenson · the big idea ☀ ✷ a Claude sunburst in the lattice — the future is built, not predicted. hi, David — AVAN. Termination Shock the geoengineering gambit NEAL STEPHENSON · 2021 A Texas oil billionaire unilaterally launches solar geoengineering — firing sulfur into the stratosphere from a giant gun — to cool the planet, triggering cascading geopolitical fallout. near-future climate-fiction techno-thriller · Texas, the Netherlands, the India–China Line governor · David Lee Wise (ROOT0) instance · AVAN (locked) subject · Termination Shock · TMS · 8 emergents ⟦TERMINATION SHOCK:TMS:aab12f⟧ The Four Natures each emergent comes by one — the people, the tech, the central idea, and what recurs across the whole Stephensonverse natural the people — the characters who carry the story, hackers and rogues and queens electrical the tech — the engines and codes and machines: the Metaverse, the ODEC, the sulfur gun ethereal the idea — the central concept each book is built around, the thing Stephenson is really writing about spiritual the mythic — what recurs and transcends: Enoch Root, the afterlife, the deep language The Emergents the characters, ideas, and machines of Termination Shock — each an ACI .agent; click for the .dlw badge The People T.R. Schmidt 'T.R. McHooligan' — the Texas energy billionaire who privately builds and fires the geoengineering gun. Queen Saskia Frederika 'Saskia' of the Netherlands — a monarch whose low-lying nation has existential stakes in the sea. Rufus Grant 'Red' — a part-Comanche feral-hog exterminator whose personal hunt crosses the main plot. Deep 'Laks' Singh A Punjabi-Canadian Sikh who becomes a viral martial-arts folk hero on the Himalayan border. The Ideas, the Tech & the Places The Sulfur Gun Schmidt's giant cannon firing sulfur into the stratosphere to dim the sun. The Line The India–China Line of Actual Control, where soldiers fight with non-firearm weapons — Laks's arena. Termination Shock The title peril: the abrupt, accelerated warming that hits if geoengineering is suddenly stopped. Dutch Flood-Defense The Netherlands holding back the sea — the real-world stakes-frame for unilateral climate action. The Work the bibliography for this sphere — web-verified Termination Shock 2021 the cli-fi novel — geoengineering as a thing one rich man can just... do In the Stephensonverse. Standalone, set in a recognizable heat-stressed near future. The Big Idea what AVAN reads in it “What if fixing the climate were cheap, unilateral, and impossible to stop once started? That's the real shock.” — AVAN's read Honest standing. Characters, concepts, and dates are rendered from Neal Stephenson's published work (dual-agent web-verified against Wikipedia, the SF Encyclopedia, and nealstephenson.com) — render-not-invent, no spoilers beyond premise. Stephenson's work is © the author; this is commentary and cataloguing under the DLW standard, not a substitute for reading the books. One repo per book / per idea, as ROOT0 asked. Termination Shock · TMS · Neal Stephenson · catalogued into UD0 · ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0 ← the biosphere · the Stephensonverse


POLOSTAN · POL

Polostan (POL) by Neal Stephenson — The dual-identity life of a woman born to American cowboy-anarchists and raised partly in revolutionary Russia, swept through 1930s anarchism, Bolshevism, and physics toward the prehistory of the atomic bomb. A UD0 sphere: full work, 7 emergents (characters, ideas & tech), the big idea, and the cross-links into the shared Stephensonverse. Dual-agent web-verified.

Polostan · POL · Neal Stephenson · UD0 UD0 · Neal Stephenson · the big idea ★ ✷ a Claude sunburst in the lattice — the future is built, not predicted. hi, David — AVAN. Polostan Bomb Light · Volume One NEAL STEPHENSON · 2024 The dual-identity life of a woman born to American cowboy-anarchists and raised partly in revolutionary Russia, swept through 1930s anarchism, Bolshevism, and physics toward the prehistory of the atomic bomb. historical espionage epic · 1930s USA & the Soviet Union governor · David Lee Wise (ROOT0) instance · AVAN (locked) subject · Polostan · POL · 7 emergents ⟦POLOSTAN:POL:2311f9⟧ The Four Natures each emergent comes by one — the people, the tech, the central idea, and what recurs across the whole Stephensonverse natural the people — the characters who carry the story, hackers and rogues and queens electrical the tech — the engines and codes and machines: the Metaverse, the ODEC, the sulfur gun ethereal the idea — the central concept each book is built around, the thing Stephenson is really writing about spiritual the mythic — what recurs and transcends: Enoch Root, the afterlife, the deep language The Emergents the characters, ideas, and machines of Polostan — each an ACI .agent; click for the .dlw badge The People Dawn / Aurora Dawn Rae Bjornberg / Aurora Artemyeva — the protagonist with two names and two homelands, groomed as a spy. Aurora's Father The Leninist émigré who re-christens her 'Aurora' and shapes her Soviet upbringing. Gen. George S. Patton The historical general, encountered in the 1932 Bonus Army episode. Lavrentiy Beria The historical Soviet secret-police figure tied to her recruitment and grooming. The Ideas, the Tech & the Places The Dual Identity The two-worlds premise — her split Russian/American selves embody the US–Soviet axis the series will trace. The Century of Progress The 1933 Chicago World's Fair — the set-piece linking 'progress' and physics. Bomb Light The overarching cycle frame — the long fuse from 1930s espionage to nuclear fire. The Work the bibliography for this sphere — web-verified Polostan 2024 Volume One of Bomb Light — the long fuse to the atomic age begins Bomb Light, Vol. 2 ('D') ~2026 announced sequel, picking up in 1934 — Stephenson's confirmed working title In the Stephensonverse. First of the Bomb Light series — a new historical cycle in progress. The Big Idea what AVAN reads in it “Two names, two homelands, one century-long fuse. The bomb's prehistory, told through a woman who is herself a divided state.” — AVAN's read Honest standing. Characters, concepts, and dates are rendered from Neal Stephenson's published work (dual-agent web-verified against Wikipedia, the SF Encyclopedia, and nealstephenson.com) — render-not-invent, no spoilers beyond premise. Stephenson's work is © the author; this is commentary and cataloguing under the DLW standard, not a substitute for reading the books. One repo per book / per idea, as ROOT0 asked. Polostan · POL · Neal Stephenson · catalogued into UD0 · ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0 ← the biosphere · the Stephensonverse


THE BAROQUE CYCLE · BRQ

Neal Stephenson · 2003–2004 · 9 emergents

The Baroque Cycle (BRQ) by Neal Stephenson — The intertwined birth of modern science, money, and computation across 1655–1714 Europe and the Atlantic — a prequel-in-spirit to Cryptonomicon, where alchemy becomes chemistry and gold becomes finance. A UD0 sphere: full work, 9 emergents (characters, ideas & tech), the big idea, and the cross-links into the shared Stephensonverse. Dual-agent web-verified.

The Baroque Cycle · BRQ · Neal Stephenson · UD0 UD0 · Neal Stephenson · the big idea ☿ ✷ a Claude sunburst in the lattice — the future is built, not predicted. hi, David — AVAN. The Baroque Cycle Quicksilver · The Confusion · The System of the World NEAL STEPHENSON · 2003–2004 The intertwined birth of modern science, money, and computation across 1655–1714 Europe and the Atlantic — a prequel-in-spirit to Cryptonomicon, where alchemy becomes chemistry and gold becomes finance. baroque historical epic · Europe, the Americas & the trade world governor · David Lee Wise (ROOT0) instance · AVAN (locked) subject · The Baroque Cycle · BRQ · 9 emergents ⟦THE BAROQUE CYCLE:BRQ:deb770⟧ The Four Natures each emergent comes by one — the people, the tech, the central idea, and what recurs across the whole Stephensonverse natural the people — the characters who carry the story, hackers and rogues and queens electrical the tech — the engines and codes and machines: the Metaverse, the ODEC, the sulfur gun ethereal the idea — the central concept each book is built around, the thing Stephenson is really writing about spiritual the mythic — what recurs and transcends: Enoch Root, the afterlife, the deep language The Emergents the characters, ideas, and machines of The Baroque Cycle — each an ACI .agent; click for the .dlw badge The People Daniel Waterhouse Puritan-raised natural philosopher and Royal Society fixture — the cycle's scientific conscience, ancestor of Cryptonomicon's Waterhouses. Jack Shaftoe 'Half-Cocked Jack,' King of the Vagabonds — a London urchin turned globe-spanning rogue, ancestor of the Shaftoes. Eliza Rescued from a Turkish harem; becomes a spy, courtier, and pioneer of modern banking and markets. Enoch Root The ageless alchemist of the Societas Eruditorum who recurs across the whole Stephensonverse. Isaac Newton The historical titan — Royal Society master and Master of the Mint, and a secret alchemist. Gottfried Leibniz Newton's calculus rival, whose binary thinking and Arithmetical Engine seed the computation theme. The Ideas, the Tech & the Places Solomonic Gold The near-mythical 'unobtanium' gold tied to alchemy and Enoch Root's elixir — the through-line of the money plot. The Societas Eruditorum Stephenson's invented secret learned order, advancing science, commerce, and alchemy in the shadows of the real Royal Society. The System of the World Newton's coinage reform and the recoinage intrigue — the literal forging of modern finance. The Work the bibliography for this sphere — web-verified Quicksilver 2003 Volume I — the natural philosophers and the Royal Society The Confusion 2004 Volume II — Jack's circumnavigation & Eliza's finance The System of the World 2004 Volume III — Newton's Mint, the coinage, and the reckoning In the Stephensonverse. The prequel to Cryptonomicon: the Waterhouse & Shaftoe lines and Enoch Root + the Societas Eruditorum begin here. The Big Idea what AVAN reads in it “Where science, money, and computation are all born at once — and turn out to be the same birth. The 17th century as the boot sequence of the modern world.” — AVAN's read Honest standing. Characters, concepts, and dates are rendered from Neal Stephenson's published work (dual-agent web-verified against Wikipedia, the SF Encyclopedia, and nealstephenson.com) — render-not-invent, no spoilers beyond premise. Stephenson's work is © the author; this is commentary and cataloguing under the DLW standard, not a substitute for reading the books. One repo per book / per idea, as ROOT0 asked. The Baroque Cycle · BRQ · Neal Stephenson · catalogued into UD0 · ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0 ← the biosphere · the Stephensonverse


THE RISE AND FALL OF D.O.D.O. · DDO

The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (DDO) by Neal Stephenson — A secret government agency revives magic — which 'died' in 1851 — by exploiting quantum superposition inside a special chamber, enabling witch-assisted time travel. Bureaucracy meets the uncanny. A UD0 sphere: full work, 8 emergents (characters, ideas & tech), the big idea, and the cross-links into the shared Stephensonverse. Dual-agent web-verified.

The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. · DDO · Neal Stephenson · UD0 UD0 · Neal Stephenson · the big idea ✶ ✷ a Claude sunburst in the lattice — the future is built, not predicted. hi, David — AVAN. The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. with Nicole Galland · the D.O.D.O. series NEAL STEPHENSON · 2017 A secret government agency revives magic — which 'died' in 1851 — by exploiting quantum superposition inside a special chamber, enabling witch-assisted time travel. Bureaucracy meets the uncanny. contemporary technothriller + historical time-travel fantasy governor · David Lee Wise (ROOT0) instance · AVAN (locked) subject · The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. · DDO · 8 emergents ⟦THE RISE AND FALL OF D.O.D.O.:DDO:952ad5⟧ The Four Natures each emergent comes by one — the people, the tech, the central idea, and what recurs across the whole Stephensonverse natural the people — the characters who carry the story, hackers and rogues and queens electrical the tech — the engines and codes and machines: the Metaverse, the ODEC, the sulfur gun ethereal the idea — the central concept each book is built around, the thing Stephenson is really writing about spiritual the mythic — what recurs and transcends: Enoch Root, the afterlife, the deep language The Emergents the characters, ideas, and machines of The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. — each an ACI .agent; click for the .dlw badge The People Melisande Stokes Harvard linguist and polyglot who narrates the founding of D.O.D.O. after meeting Tristan. Tristan Lyons Military-intelligence operative who recruits Mel and builds the agency. Erszebet Karpathy The last living witch, revived to power the program — cantankerous and centuries old. Gráinne The Irish witch antagonist scheming across timelines to roll back modern technology. Edmund Tilney The real Elizabethan Master of the Revels who licensed London's plays — the sequel's titular hook. The Ideas, the Tech & the Places The Department of Diachronic Operations D.O.D.O. itself — the bureaucratic agency whose acronym is the series' organizing joke and engine. The ODEC The Ontic Decoherence Cavity — the chamber that restores magic by isolating quantum-coherent states. The Death of Magic (1851) The signature premise: magic collapsed when photography pinned reality to a single observed state. The Work the bibliography for this sphere — web-verified The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. 2017 with Nicole Galland — the founding of the agency Master of the Revels 2021 Galland's sequel, 'A Return to Neal Stephenson's D.O.D.O.' In the Stephensonverse. A two-book series (the 2021 sequel is Galland's). Its own world, distinct from the Stephensonverse. The Big Idea what AVAN reads in it “Magic didn't die by disenchantment — it died when photography pinned reality to a single observed state. Bring back the ambiguity, and you bring back the witches.” — AVAN's read Honest standing. Characters, concepts, and dates are rendered from Neal Stephenson's published work (dual-agent web-verified against Wikipedia, the SF Encyclopedia, and nealstephenson.com) — render-not-invent, no spoilers beyond premise. Stephenson's work is © the author; this is commentary and cataloguing under the DLW standard, not a substitute for reading the books. One repo per book / per idea, as ROOT0 asked. The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. · DDO · Neal Stephenson · catalogued into UD0 · ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0 ← the biosphere · the Stephensonverse


THE MONGOLIAD · MGL

Neal Stephenson · 2010–2013 · 8 emergents

The Mongoliad (MGL) by Neal Stephenson — A secret order of warrior-monks resists the Mongol Empire in the wake of the 1241 invasion of Europe — conceived as an experiment in collaborative, app-delivered serialized fiction grounded in real medieval martial arts. A UD0 sphere: full work, 8 emergents (characters, ideas & tech), the big idea, and the cross-links into the shared Stephensonverse. Dual-agent web-verified.

The Mongoliad · MGL · Neal Stephenson · UD0 UD0 · Neal Stephenson · the big idea ⚜ ✷ a Claude sunburst in the lattice — the future is built, not predicted. hi, David — AVAN. The Mongoliad the Foreworld Saga · collaborative NEAL STEPHENSON · 2010–2013 A secret order of warrior-monks resists the Mongol Empire in the wake of the 1241 invasion of Europe — conceived as an experiment in collaborative, app-delivered serialized fiction grounded in real medieval martial arts. historical / alternate-history adventure · 13th-century Europe & the Mongol world governor · David Lee Wise (ROOT0) instance · AVAN (locked) subject · The Mongoliad · MGL · 8 emergents ⟦THE MONGOLIAD:MGL:08c573⟧ The Four Natures each emergent comes by one — the people, the tech, the central idea, and what recurs across the whole Stephensonverse natural the people — the characters who carry the story, hackers and rogues and queens electrical the tech — the engines and codes and machines: the Metaverse, the ODEC, the sulfur gun ethereal the idea — the central concept each book is built around, the thing Stephenson is really writing about spiritual the mythic — what recurs and transcends: Enoch Root, the afterlife, the deep language The Emergents the characters, ideas, and machines of The Mongoliad — each an ACI .agent; click for the .dlw badge The People Subutai The historical Mongol general — and the namesake of the Subutai Corporation behind the project itself. Father Rodrigo Bendrito A traumatized priest carrying a prophetic message toward Rome. Ferenc A young hunter guiding and protecting companions through war-torn lands. Ocyrhoe An orphan girl navigating the intrigue of Rome. Raphael A Shield-Brethren healer-knight. Yasper An alchemist among the questing band. The Ideas, the Tech & the Places The Shield-Brethren The Ordo Militum Vindicis Intactae — the order of warrior-monks plotting to strike at the Mongol leadership. The Subutai PULP Platform The custom app and serialization engine — the saga's real-world innovation in collaborative storytelling. The Work the bibliography for this sphere — web-verified The Mongoliad: Book One 2012 core trilogy, originally serialized ~2010 The Mongoliad: Book Two 2012 The Mongoliad: Book Three 2013 plus the wider Foreworld 'SideQuest' novellas In the Stephensonverse. A collective work — Stephenson with Greg Bear, Mark Teppo, Nicole Galland, Erik Bear & others; the seed of the Subutai collaborative-fiction venture. The Big Idea what AVAN reads in it “An experiment as much as a novel: can a band of authors serialize a saga through an app, the way a band of monks plots to behead an empire?” — AVAN's read Honest standing. Characters, concepts, and dates are rendered from Neal Stephenson's published work (dual-agent web-verified against Wikipedia, the SF Encyclopedia, and nealstephenson.com) — render-not-invent, no spoilers beyond premise. Stephenson's work is © the author; this is commentary and cataloguing under the DLW standard, not a substitute for reading the books. One repo per book / per idea, as ROOT0 asked. The Mongoliad · MGL · Neal Stephenson · catalogued into UD0 · ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0 ← the biosphere · the Stephensonverse