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Decoding the Multiverse: A Screaming Guide for Amateur Demigods
Ever stared into the cosmic abyss and felt it wink back? Good. You’re ready.
Welcome to Decoding the A Screaming Guide for Amateur Demigods—a genre-breaking, fourth-wall-demolishing field manual for those who suspect reality is less “objective truth” and more “collaborative hallucination with footnotes.”
Penned (and occasionally sabotaged) by Valdir Souza Pinto and his increasingly unhinged alternate selves, this metanarrative fever dream masquerades as a guidebook for navigating the infinite realities of the multiverse. But don’t be fooled. This is not a tidy exploration of theoretical physics. This is a cognitive slip-and-slide through broken formatting, recursive chapters, contradictory glossaries, and aggressively sentient footnotes.
Inside, you’ll
A field guide to recognizing alternate versions of yourself—complete with snarky checklists and threat levels.
Tutorials on multiversal travel, mid-jump etiquette, and why mirrors should never be trusted.
A glossary that rewrites itself.
A physics primer rewritten using only bad coffee metaphors.
A chapter that self-destructs.
Several chapters that are redundant on purpose (and one that insists it isn’t).
Footnotes that argue with each other and with you.
Cameos from alternate Valdirs,
the nihilist
who deletes half the book live
who writes like an error message with poetic ambition
who tries to sell you multiversal insurance
who just wants the burrito metaphor back
What begins as an attempt to explain the multiverse devolves—gracefully—into chaos.
The book fractures under its own contradictions. Pages rearrange themselves. Diagrams are tampered with. Glossaries contradict each other (and themselves). Reality is defined, redefined, deleted, and then replaced with interpretive footnote dance.
But within the absurdity, something strange meaning leaks in. Whether you’re an overthinker, a recovering philosopher, a sci-fi junkie, or someone who simply enjoys watching intellectual train wrecks in slow motion, Decoding the Multiverse will speak to that unstable particle in you that suspects you’re not the only version of yourself out there—and maybe not the best one either.
This is a book for readers who talk to themselves. For writers who’ve lost the plot. For anyone who’s ever had a déjà vu that came with subtitles.
And if, by the end, you feel disoriented, slightly nauseated, or like a different version of yourself just finished the book for you—congratulations. That means it’s working.
You are here. Probably.
Welcome to Decoding the A Screaming Guide for Amateur Demigods—a genre-breaking, fourth-wall-demolishing field manual for those who suspect reality is less “objective truth” and more “collaborative hallucination with footnotes.”
Penned (and occasionally sabotaged) by Valdir Souza Pinto and his increasingly unhinged alternate selves, this metanarrative fever dream masquerades as a guidebook for navigating the infinite realities of the multiverse. But don’t be fooled. This is not a tidy exploration of theoretical physics. This is a cognitive slip-and-slide through broken formatting, recursive chapters, contradictory glossaries, and aggressively sentient footnotes.
Inside, you’ll
A field guide to recognizing alternate versions of yourself—complete with snarky checklists and threat levels.
Tutorials on multiversal travel, mid-jump etiquette, and why mirrors should never be trusted.
A glossary that rewrites itself.
A physics primer rewritten using only bad coffee metaphors.
A chapter that self-destructs.
Several chapters that are redundant on purpose (and one that insists it isn’t).
Footnotes that argue with each other and with you.
Cameos from alternate Valdirs,
the nihilist
who deletes half the book live
who writes like an error message with poetic ambition
who tries to sell you multiversal insurance
who just wants the burrito metaphor back
What begins as an attempt to explain the multiverse devolves—gracefully—into chaos.
The book fractures under its own contradictions. Pages rearrange themselves. Diagrams are tampered with. Glossaries contradict each other (and themselves). Reality is defined, redefined, deleted, and then replaced with interpretive footnote dance.
But within the absurdity, something strange meaning leaks in. Whether you’re an overthinker, a recovering philosopher, a sci-fi junkie, or someone who simply enjoys watching intellectual train wrecks in slow motion, Decoding the Multiverse will speak to that unstable particle in you that suspects you’re not the only version of yourself out there—and maybe not the best one either.
This is a book for readers who talk to themselves. For writers who’ve lost the plot. For anyone who’s ever had a déjà vu that came with subtitles.
And if, by the end, you feel disoriented, slightly nauseated, or like a different version of yourself just finished the book for you—congratulations. That means it’s working.
You are here. Probably.
229 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 6, 2025
About the author
Valdir Pinto
26 booksValdir Pinto is a Brazilian educator and storyteller whose passion for science and imagination converge in his debut science fiction novel, Hawking’s War. With a background in education and years of experience helping young minds explore complex ideas, Valdir brings clarity, curiosity, and emotional depth to speculative fiction. His writing is inspired by the wonders of theoretical physics, time travel, and the human condition, often weaving hard science with philosophical questions. Hawking’s War continues the universe he introduced in Hawking’s Party, pushing the boundaries of identity, memory, and cosmology. When he’s not writing, Valdir is guiding students through mathematics, critical thinking, and the strange beauty of how the universe works.
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