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The Lake Before the Next BookA dock at Issyk-Kul, a stack of pages held down by a stone, and the first evening of whatever comes after Ternary Dreams.The Signing TableA stranger's three-colour-underlined photocopy of a declassified MESM page, and the good kind of book fair noise.Reading Nights on TourTwo days into the Ternary Dreams tour, what a reading actually demands of a sentence that looked strong on the page.Ternary Dreams is outLaunch day for Ternary Dreams: what the work asked, what I am proud of, and quiet thanks to the early readers who went first.Two weeks outIn two weeks Ternary Dreams meets the world. The first time the title and a real date sit together on this blog.The only ternary computer ever builtNotes on Setun, Brusentsov, Lebedev, and Ekaterina Shkabara, whose name recedes in the retelling.Console TimeAn afternoon at the console of a Soviet-era mainframe with the people who kept it alive: relay racks, magnetic drums, and the logic of three states.FeofanijaOn researching Kyiv’s Feofanija district as a frame setting, and why a live war can never be treated as scenery.Reading Toward a DistrictA paper map of Kyiv, a pencil arrow, and a phone call about which paths still exist.A diary in codeOn encoding a private diary in balanced ternary, the fictional device at the heart of the new book, and the real machine that made the idea feel possible: Setun.A third stateEarly research notes on a new novel about Soviet computing, balanced ternary logic, and why a third state beyond yes and no feels like the right shape for hidden lives.
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