Jeffrey Hildner

"NEW VOCABULARY OPENS UP NEW REALITIES."

Michelangelo A. Roland Slate is a screenwriter, film critic, story theorist, and novelist.

He forged the 2022 sci-fi thriller Call Me Daedalus from a fusion of NI (Natural Intelligence) and AI—a synthesis he calls ZI: Zeno Intelligence.

For the graphic novel, he coined new vocabulary to convey his view of the eternal continuum of the architecture of being, introducing terms such as "Interplanar Place Machine" and "HereBefore":

"With the help of his AI supermentor Daedalus—the mythical architect of the Labyrinth and Wings—Max North stakes everything on the creation of an Interplanar Place Machine. His only chance to cross the boundaries that separate the HereBefore, the Here, and the HereAfter to reunite with a loved one before time runs out."

His vision of the story structure of our lives—unfolding through the Immortal Meta-Labyrinth of Place—threads through his other 11 books.

Michelangelo A. Roland Slate—M.A.R.S.—is the pen name of architect Jef7rey Hildner.

"THE ARTIST DEFAMILIARIZES THE WORLD—MAKES IT STRANGE—AND WAKES US UP."