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So far, I've traced that weaving process back to the late 70s when Thomas was persistently annoying Isaac Asimov (yes, Asimov is also a character in the Exode Trilogy) and pushing him towards writing more science fiction novels. Thomas arranged for Asimov to visit a small university and speak to its science fiction club members. That was the first time I got to meet Asimov.
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Through the connivance of Peter, I was introduced to Hana. Although
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When Izhiun completed his mission on Earth and revealed the fact that Space Energy Missions was the hard-to-find Nereid cover operation, he was suddenly thrown into contact with his aunt, Hilde. However, before they left Earth together and since Hilde had long been in contact with Angela (a kind of technology-assisted telepathy), it became possible for Ivory to become aware of my existence.
Sadly, I've
However, Ivory does not have a monopoly on her special gene combinations. Several clones of Ivory were made and exploited in order to provide Earth with at least limited access to the Bimanoid Interface. In particular, Ivory's "clone sister" Angela has taken on the task of using the Interface to explore the vast information deposits of the Sedronic Domain.
By providing a link between Angela and myself it has slowly become possible for us to start making sense of the lives of Parthney and Asimov. It continues to be a mind (actually two minds, both Angela's and my own) blowing task: sorting through all of the "Thomas clones" and the alternate lives of Asimov in the Reality Chain that led up to the world as we know it.
Theory of Mind
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Will the Buld provide a technological solution to the problem of global warming and sea level rise? Is Ivory acting as their contact on Earth to coordinate implementation of the Buld plan?
My best guess is that Ivory simply likes living on Earth. I hope she has found her mother and they are able to have some fragment of a normal life. However, If Angela has moved on then I fear that Ivory's "project" involves her own use of the Interface.
For those of us who did not have their brains crafted and shaped during their first months of life to accommodate the Interface, there is great danger in making contact with the Sedronic Domain. Doing so during the past 20,000 years has doubtlessly created some of the great visionaries and mystics of human history, but also a far larger population of mad men and corpses.
How can I know if the increasingly twisted glimpses into the Sedronic Domain being reported to me by Ivory reflect the fantastic nature of that domain or the shattering of her mind?
And what of my own mind, quivering under the weight of its own load on nanites? Can I trust my own feeling of recently being in partial nanite-mediated telepathic contact with someone -someone that I must suspect is Ivory? Oh, how convenient it would be to have such a communications conduit. Is my wishful thinking playing tricks on me?
Next: more about "the editor" and his continuing efforts to perfect a collaboration with Ivory.
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