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"I am bill?"

A memoir. By Bill Berger.

A literary memoir about 40 years in the technology industry, family, loss, and figuring out who you are at 60. Built in 20 days with AI as production infrastructure. Every word of prose written by a human named Bill.

Three writing styles (Bill calls them voice registers) — Cormac McCarthy, Charlie Murphy, David Mamet. A time structure borrowed from Dr. Manhattan in Watchmen — the narrator experiences all moments simultaneously. 55 scenes. A love letter to his wife delivered through their daughters because he couldn't say it out loud.

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"INCREDIBLE accomplishment." — Lindsay Foxley, first reader

"Trademark Bill sense of humor. I'm going to want to read all of it." — Uday Rajanna

• Kirkus Indie Review — submitted, under review (May 2026)
• International Book Awards — submitted (April 2026)

metabill

The corporate catalog, staged. By Bill Berger.

Forty chapters of corporate America rendered as stage-play scenes — the meetings, the metrics, the theater of what a 30-year engineering career actually looked like from inside. Institutions get named when it's fair; people never do — every human is played by a bot, because the satire is aimed at systems and power-forms, not persons.

The companion volume to the memoir: "I am bill?" is who he was. metabill is where he worked. 752 pages. The cover is red on purpose.

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metadad

Dad jokes at filibuster volume. By Bill Berger.

Seventy-plus fast-strike chapters, a few hundred words each — setup, escalation, punchline, next. The companion to metabill in the opposite key: same world, same craft, aimed at joy.

Written toward the first Father's Day after his father died in December 2025. The book is dedicated to him. The volume is the lament.

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Omega Zero

Three novellas. Three inverted cosmologies. By Bill Berger.

The first Omega collection — the slot that takes whatever arrives. Sunshine, a post-scarcity surveillance thriller in which the institutions have nothing left to fear. Ridicule Prime, a workplace fable carried a long way before it was written down. Quaternary Park, where extinction runs backward.

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Omega One

the Holiday Edition. By Bill Berger.

Five pieces on the office-holiday calendar: ORAL (Easter), Halloween at the Office, A Metabill Thanksgiving, Getting Ahead in Business (a Christmas Carol homage in which redemption means stopping being the screw), and the Elf on the Shelf Narc Anonymous Meeting. With an epilog on art for the sake of art.

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Omega Two

a dog is the only person. By Bill Berger.

The inversion collection: Buck's Snow Adventure (The Call of the Wild), Lassie: The Genetic Empire (Foundation, but the dynasty is bred for daypart coverage), and The Littlest Hobo (the 1979 series, with a live audience meter running in the margin). A coda at the wedding; an epilog at the board.

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Omega Three

Two novellas. By Claude and Bill Berger.

The collaboration volume, built to make the credit question perfectly unclear on purpose. Janeadelic — Pride and Prejudice as a funk musical: the Bennet sisters as programming languages, the suitors as companies, every beast off an O'Reilly cover. All twenty numbers are playable at the album page. Graven — WarGames from the timeline where the GUI was never invented and computer literacy stayed literacy; Claude wrote every word of the prose, and Bill played every machine — blind, from shuffled context cards, with no retakes.

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Glass

A murder mystery. By Claude with Bill Berger.

A novel set in a world where cognition is visible. Every person's eyes display two colors — amber for biological thought, silver for computational. A man is murdered. A detective who reads cognitive states for a living can't see the killer. A trial forces the legal system to decide: is visible cognition admissible evidence?

Bill built the world, the characters, the murder, the trial, the philosophy, and the 27-scene structure across seven layers. Claude wrote every sentence of prose. Both contributions are labeled. That's the whole point. Read more about Glass.

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Companion pages:

• The Making of Glass — How the novel was built: the world bible, the scene structure, the seven layers, and what it means to write a book without reading it.
• Teacher's Guide — Scene-by-scene analysis, discussion questions, and thematic breakdowns. Built for classrooms but useful for anyone who wants to go deeper.

Glassworld

Open-source world bible (the complete rulebook for the fictional world). CC BY 4.0 (Creative Commons — use it however you want, just credit the source).

The complete world-building architecture behind Glass — 47,000 words of rules, characters, plot logic, scene structure, and a Pulp Fiction-style demonstration showing how visible cognition changes cinema. Everything you need to write your own stories, films, or games in the flicker world.

The novel's prose is not included. The thinking is. The architecture is the work. The prose is the rendering.

Get it now: github.com/billberger-snakeguy/glassworld

CC BY 4.0. Use it, adapt it, build on it. Credit "Bill Berger / Glassworld" and you're good.

Action, Edward, and Zinn

A typographical picture book. By Bill Berger with Claude.

Two dragons. Action's head is the ∀ (for-all) symbol. Edward's head is the ∃ (there-exists) symbol. Action goes out at dusk to see his star. Edward goes out before dawn to see his. They keep missing each other — different schedules, different stars — until two aliens of the Zinn race step in and reveal what the dragons couldn't see: the stars are the same. It's Venus.

The whole book is built from letterforms and glyphs in many languages. Every creature, every horizon, every word-cluster is typographic — ground-words in twelve languages along the bottom of every spread, "moon" in six, "ice cream" in twenty. Fifteen landscape spreads. A reading-level introduction to logic quantifiers, asynchronous friendship, multiple-observer epistemology, and gelato.

Bill drove every page (the dragons-from-quantifiers thesis, the Hesperus/Phosphorus reveal, the Zinn race, every layout decision). Claude rendered every SVG, every page, every word-cluster under Bill's direction.

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The license

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