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A memoir, a novel, a world you can build in, and a typographical picture book. All free. All labeled.

Everything here is free. WinRAR rules — take it, use it, share it. Glass, Glassworld, and Action, Edward, and Zinn are instant downloads. The memoir takes one email. That's the whole process.

"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.

Get a copy: Email wgberger@gmail.com with "I am bill?" in the subject.

"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)

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.

Get it now: Download Glass (PDF, 560 KB). Free. No email, no signup. Just take it.

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.

Get it now: Download Action, Edward, and Zinn (PDF, 3.7 MB). Free. No email, no signup. Just take it.

The license

The books are free. WinRAR rules — copy them, share them, print them, give them away. Glass and Action, Edward, and Zinn are direct downloads. The memoir asks one thing: email wgberger@gmail.com saying who it's for and why. That's the price.

Glassworld is CC BY 4.0 — use it for anything, just attribute.