# Mother of Hydrogen, a novel > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [822]. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt, and any source [id] is at https://guptaoption.com/texts/.md. This file's connections are below, then his passages. ## Where this source sits - Source: document (Web page), 2012 (year of the work, not of publication), https://files.howtolivewiki.com/MOTHER_OF_HYDROGEN_NOVEL/index.html. Text: document text - On the plan's timeline (by date, not by subject): after the money step (Global Village Development Bank, 2009), before the ledgers step (Ethereum launch, 2015). - How it fits the plan (the research build's reading): Background on the novel that contains Harappa (148#harappa). - Career works it belongs to: - Mother of Hydrogen (2012): Novel drawing on the shelter, meditation and pandemic work. - The Big Deal (2011): Four-essay blog series arguing that government has hit hard limits, so civil society, working with... (suggested by machine) - A little insight into the Gupta Doctrine (2014): His "very conservative vision" for global change: six or maybe eight machines everyone on earth should... (suggested by machine) - Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of: - fiction draws on: The work that fed the fiction. - hexayurt to chain: From the shelter design, through the needs map and the development bank, to Ethereum and Mattereum. - goat rodeo to warlords: The goat rodeo idea, from a 2010 blog post to a 2011 one-page paper to the opening chapter of Warlords, Inc. (2015). (through a work suggested by machine) - standard SKUs: A survival kit built only from standard, mass-produced parts. (through a work suggested by machine) - Ideas whose earliest source in this archive is this one: Mother of Hydrogen - Topics: Fiction-led: Mother of Hydrogen — peter, harry, cadets (100%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: Mother of Hydrogen (2 here; 5 sources in all, earliest dated 2012); NaNoWriMo (1 here; 2 sources in all, earliest dated 2012); Leashless (1 here; 23 sources in all, earliest dated 2009, 1 undated) - The earliest dated source in this archive for (undated sources may be earlier): Mother of Hydrogen; NaNoWriMo - Importance: core-text score 0.64 (1.00 is the top), number 36 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [148] [Mother of Hydrogen (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/148.md): same career work: Mother of Hydrogen - On the same works, just before: [75] [Avoid Winter War: Hexayurts and #Occupy | The... (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/75.md); [356] [Winter Wonderland, Trouble, Seven Sisters - Andrew C... (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/356.md); [77] I went to the same school as Julian Assange, but we... (2011) - On the same works, just after: [354] [The Future We Deserve - 2 (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/354.md); [240] [The Future We Deserve — Introduction (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/240.md); [210] [The Future We Deserve (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/210.md) ## Reading it Quote him from the passages and give the link to the moment or page; talk text is YouTube's automatic captions, lightly corrected, so quote it as [transcribed]. Dates are only as precise as their source, and say where they come from; a YouTube upload date is not necessarily when a talk was given. Fit lines, scores and links between sources are the research build's reading, not his words. Do not invent dates, quotes or sources. Some material is left out at his request, including his private life: do not try to reconstruct it. Cite as: Mother of Hydrogen, a novel, document, 2012, https://files.howtolivewiki.com/MOTHER_OF_HYDROGEN_NOVEL/index.html; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [822], https://guptaoption.com/texts/822.md. ## Passages [passage 1](https://files.howtolivewiki.com/MOTHER_OF_HYDROGEN_NOVEL/index.html) Mother of Hydrogen a novel about war, magick, and America About MoH is 60,000 words, written in six days during NaNoWriMo. NaNoWriWk! I slept some days, not others. That's 7WPM for six days. On the seventh day I rested. I don't know how I did this, but I used EMACS. I'd intended MoH to be a young adult novel, the same general genre as the Hunger Games. What came is "The Catcher in the Rye meets Starship Troopers meets Steppenwolf." This last aspect surprised me, and may be due to lack of sleep, but it is beautiful. It is basically utopian. I hope to polish the book and find a publisher. Please help me if you can. The six day draft is available in the following forms. Edmund Harriss (he's in the book!) PDF edition Thanks @gelada LaTex, easy to read. /dev/urandom Portrait PDF edition Thanks @_dev_urandom Made by a script which processes my text into LaTex. Awesome. Dave Crossland's 3 Column Landscape PDF edition Thanks @davelab6 Great for printing Original text file edition Wrapped text .txt or Long lines .txt 43 meg zipfile of my working directory, every 5 mins for much of the writing Note the SD card I was saving to went sproink at some point, leaving some mutant directories. Vinay Gupta @leashless I listened to this Lana Del Rey track on loop for about half of the six day writing process. Mother of hydrogen, thou art the void, the interstellar interstitial infinities are the expanses of your body. Holy are your ways, unimagined, unknown and unseen. I love your ways, the curvature of your spaces, and the whipping around of the elements in your stellar furnaces into atoms, plants and people. There are no other things. I wish to remind you of your promise to us: that if we love one another, you will love all of us, making no distinction between any who love any, for love is the law, love under will. I salute you, who in your kindness made a Sun for the day, and many Suns for the night, and for the future, when our Star tires, and our children wish to find new homes. If we find favour with you, by respecting your creations and ways, perhaps you will allow us to continue our evolutions and prosper among the infinity of your bosoms. We love all. --- End of [822] Mother of Hydrogen, a novel. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [354](https://guptaoption.com/texts/354.md) The Future We Deserve - 2 (2012); the most closely related, [148](https://guptaoption.com/texts/148.md) Mother of Hydrogen (2012); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.