Purifier creator commentary pg.42 (Patreon)

Mathematician, computer scientist, logician, crypoanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. Alan Mathison Turing is best known in our history as the leading participant in cracking the German enigma cipher at Bletchley, and also as the father of AI and theoretical computer science.Not counting Hitler's death at the beginning of the story, Mr. Turing is the first character I have directly adapted from history thus far. I don't plan to have manyof such adaptations in the story, but I think that he would have been conspicuous by his absence. I read anecdotally somewhere that Alan was a habitual nail biter, so I've included it to indicate stress and/or thoughtfulness on this page and the next.In the reich-less timeline of Purifier, Alan Turing's brilliant intellect is hard at work on a different though no less challenging problem. The Goliath machine mentioned on my previous post is an epidemiological database, display, and most importantly predictive computer. At this point in the story the machine has not yet reached its full potential, but as will become apparent it will play an important role soon enough. I try to show as much as possible visually, but you do sometimes need characters to literally explain what is going on. Exposition isn't in itself a bad storytelling technique, just one that is frequently overwrought or overused. I try my very hardest to contrive situations where characters seem as natural as possible discussing details that are of importance to the audience without sounding as though they're speaking directly to the audience. There's nothing worse in my mind than the dreaded "As you know...".