| UNSONG. Magical fantasy set in a Silicon Valley where Microprosopus (Microsoft), Gogmagog (Google), Amalek (Amazon), and Countenance (Facebook) have figured out how to brute force discovering Divine Names of God through the magic of independent contractors. Every chapter begins with a quote from a Markov chain trained on the King James Bible, SICP, and ESR. For example: > It is good practice to have your program poke around at runtime and see if it can be used to give a light unto the Gentiles. The first chapter begins > The apocalypse began in a cubicle. > ... Upon the floor was a chair and upon the chair was me. My name is Aaron Smith-Teller and I am twenty-two years old. I was fiddling with a rubber band and counting the minutes until my next break and seeking the hidden transcendent Names of God. > “AR-ASH-KON-CHEL-NA-VAN-TSIR,” I chanted. > That wasn’t a hidden transcendent Name of God. That wasn’t surprising. During my six months at Countenance I must have spoken five hundred thousand of these words. Each had taken about five seconds, earned me about two cents, and cost a small portion of my dignity. None of them had been hidden transcendent Names of God. http://unsongbook.com/ |
It is an excellent and hilarious read nonetheless. One of the best web serials I have read.