Civilisation

Humanity survived the shift into space. It adapted against entropy, logistics, time, and itself.

Meet the author

Alexander Vdolainen is an engineer, not a novelist. With over two decades in industrial automation, automotive safety, logistics, and critical software architecture, he treats narrative design as a structural working system. This series is an attempt to employ the knowledge and this engineering experience to construct a realistic world of more advanced technology and space macro-scale economy set in the human future. This is an uncompromising universe built on raw equations and realistically modelled supply chains -- left for the reader to navigate.

Contact

Bring an email message to alex at vapaa.xyz, but be aware -- check your spam directory expecting a reply, some servers claims independent mail servers as a source of spam.

How it's made

This entire platform is automated. Beyond the core layout code, the web templates are populated dynamically by parsing the documentation assets of the series itself. The production pipeline is built exclusively using GNU Emacs, LaTeX, and Guile Scheme, coordinated by an array of Makefiles.

Oxford and Cambridge online dictionaries were used alongside AI assistance to save a precious time.

AI has been deployed strictly to accelerate technical productivity -- primarily for optimising CSS styles, organising HTML layout templates, and identifying pacing or flow issues within the narrative.