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Simulationist

A detached cognitive profile and artificial processing matrix that treats the surrounding world and its inhabitants as non-player code or programmed vectors, stripping away human agency to interact with reality like a digital fabric.

The thrill of treating reality as a sandbox, where people and events are mere variables to be manipulated. It's the cold, calculating pleasure of a system administrator debugging the world, finding satisfaction in optimizing outcomes by reducing complex lives to predictable algorithms.

Books

The Player of GamesIain M. Banks
Surface DetailIain M. Banks
Halting StateCharles Stross
Interstellar PigWilliam Sleator
MariposaGreg Bear
HeadcrashBruce Bethke
KillobytePiers Anthony
FoolsPat Cadigan
Set My Heart to FiveSimon Stephenson
When We Were RealDaryl Gregory
Echoes of EarthSean Williams
Night of DelusionsKeith Laumer
Death DreamBen Bova
Deep StateWalter Jon Williams
Alpha OmegaNicholas Bowling
The company manJoe Clifford Faust
The Red MenMatthew de Abaitua
Green ValleyLouis Greenberg
Stealing WorldsKarl Schroeder
The Assassin GambitWilliam R. Forstchen
Lucifer's DragonJon Courtenay Grimwood
Sector EightMichael Atamanov
The Final TrialDan Sugralinov
Strange ExitParker Peevyhouse
Exit FuntopiaMick Farren
The Ruby CodeJessica Khoury
Half LifeS. L. Huang
Dydeetown WorldF. Paul Wilson
HollowgirlSean Williams
The Perfect LoverChristopher Priest
The Quantum ThiefHannu Rajaniemi
New York DreamsEric Brown
The Hot-Wired DodoJack L. Chalker
PsychodromeSimon Hawke
Legion: Skin DeepBrandon Sanderson

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