This page is for the things that usually live in footnotes or at the back of the book: where the text can be found, how it may change over time, and what you are allowed to do with it.
Soylent Red is published under CC BY-NC-SA. That means you are free to read it, share it, and adapt it, as long as you credit the source, keep it non-commercial, and release any adaptations under the same license. In short: you can pass it on, bend it, remix it, and bring it into new contexts, but not sell it or quietly fence it in.
The text will not only live on this website. You find at least one stable version in a public repository that issues a DOI (see below), and another in a long-term archive built for digital decay (coming later, I hope). I also put together two suggested citations for anyone who wants to reference the work in a more formal setting.
Harvard: TJISO (2025) “Soylent Red”. Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.17632214.
APA: TJISO. (2025). Soylent Red (1.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17632214
The version hosted at this particular site may change (you find it under Soylent Red). Small edits, corrections, and adjustments are likely as I continue to think about what I’ve written and what it does in the world. If you need a fixed, citable version you find below. If you are simply curious and willing to live with the draft-like nature of things, this site will do.
I have also used various digital tools in the making of this project — including those that happily autocomplete sentences and sometimes invent things (and here I do not mean my wife, now running on version 1.42 [continuously updated], supplied by Elexiri, who is exceptionally good at detecting, selecting, and ejecting some of my ideas long before they crash on their own). The responsibility for what remains is still mine. The system may suggest, but I decide what stays… except when my wife is present. Then she decides. That is how that system works.
More to the point. I used different AI tools for putting this manuscript together. Not being a native English speaker it was very useful for several tasks, especially for helping me find words and expressions that worked in the world I created. AI was also used for creating this website and everything that goes with it (I had no idea it was so complicated). Some things worked, others not and I have no idea why. The artwork for both the book and this site is actually created on Microsoft powerpoint, using some old photos as background. It turned out much better than I thought it would. I hope you like it to.This is, in short, the technical corner of the project: licenses, versions, mirrors, and whatever else seems necessary to make sure the story doesn’t vanish the moment someone pulls a plug.
A stable, citable version of Soylent Red is archived here:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17632214