Behold, my debut novella!

Set in the Age of Exploration, young Nathaniel Darewell gazes at the horizon from his quiet coastal village of Willowbrook, yearning for adventure beyond the familiar shores. When sailors bring tales of La Viva—a miraculous salt rumored to cure tuberculosis and bring immense wealth—he joins a large group of prospectors, all setting sail to venture to the remote island of Ilha Salina. But the island holds more than just treasure; it harbors an overwhelming number of desperate fortune-seekers, and beneath the feverish salt rush atmosphere lies an even more sinister secret.

Hi, I'm Evan,

a consciousness adrift in humanity's rising tide of exponential growth and technological wonder. Besides AI research, I compose contemporary classical music and write stories, always pondering: Where shall my path lead?

As AGI beckons from the horizon, as medicine slowly uncovers secrets of life, and as physicists experiment with particles in their accelerators, I yearn to join them, to co-author the next chapter of humankind.

We've decoded the Universe's birth and glimpsed its eventual twilight, so why not write our own destiny? We are the greatest hive mind; each and every one of us specialized. Yet, we hinder ourselves with wars and environmental wounds.

Let us recognize the brilliance in each other and combine our strengths. Together, we'll become the universe's greatest story ever told.

A little more about me...

Spent the first 6 years of my life in Guangdong and then moved to Beijing.

At BNTA, I initiated a religion called Perkinism, wrote my own Bible, and appointed myself as the pope. I made my entire grade religious believers and used it to increase school/class spirit and advocate for non-GMO chicken for cafeteria lunch.

Then I came to NY. I spent the first few years learning English to get rid of the ENL label & assimilated myself into the English-speaking communities within the school. Did Research (independent; @ SCI Research Institute, PACE, NYAS, Aspen Institute & Chinese Academy of Sciences), Robotics, Programming, Cross Country, DECA (VP), and Student Government (VP). Co-founded a search engine for HS researchers and founded an academic newsletter for HS students.

So far...

Currently...

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