Assassination By Subtraction |
Writing under the name "John Doe", it did not take long for founder of the Dead Widowers to attract attention, particularly the attention of the tryp'At Overseers. Assassination by Subtraction is a fast-paced mystery/adventure story that does not shy away from providing details about the involvement of aliens in the death of President Lincoln.
The effort in 2014 to publish Assassination by Subtraction was an experiment aimed at learning the terms of the Trysta-Grean Pact. Something in that story crossed the line and pushed the tryp'At into action: publication of Assassination by Subtraction was blocked.
Original artwork by Johannes Bruck Published in the Ekcolir Reality |
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The Atlantis Clones have been gradually educating me about the writing careers of Jack and John within the Ekcolir Reality, stimulating me to write a series of blog posts about their stories that exist in Deep Time (most recently).
Temporal Amplification
Original artwork by John Schoenherr Published in the Ekcolir Reality |
Temporal Momentum also made possible Reality Viewing. In particular, Trysta and Grean were able to View possible new Realities and they selected the Buld Reality as the Final Reality. The fact of temporal momentum made it possible to identify the exact conditions of the Reality Change that could bring into existence the Buld Reality (our universe).
Published in the Ekcolir Reality source |
Vance vs Asimov
The invention of science fiction as a literary genre began in the often-forgotten "Asimov Reality". The time-traveling Isaac Asimov took the place of John Campbell and mentored his younger self as a science fiction writer. Sadly, that Reality quickly resulted in a devastating nuclear war.
In the Ekcolir Reality, Grean arranged for Asimov's replicoid to travel back in time to the mid-20th century. Grean had conceived the idea of using science fiction as a way of introducing the people of Earth to the aliens who had created the human species. Asimov's replicoid began the process of sneaking stories about the hidden history of humanity past the Overseers, a process that I call "Experimental Interventionism": discovering what story content can pass as fiction while telling truths about reality.
Urbanites vs Institute
Published in the Ekcolir Reality source |
Gohrlay was appalled by such a future for humanity. R. Gohrlay had originally conceived an alternative future in which Asterothropes inherited Earth, but she could find no way to avoid damage to Earth's ecosystem. Then, the Trysta-Grean Pact formed around a new compromise position that would allow Earth to satisfy both the Huaoshy directive that Earth not be destroyed as a garden world and Gohrlay's desire that humans, not Prelands, inherit the Earth.
Published in the Ekcolir Reality source |
The Spectrum of Science Fiction
Vance: transformations through time... from the Historical Institute to the Institute |
"My stories deal with the development of humanity in various environments." -Jack Vance (source)
Within the the literary genre of science fiction, Asimov can be seen as the writer who, as a trained scientist, established the parameters of "hard" science fiction. When Asimov stepped outside of his role as a science fiction writer he was most well known for his works of science popularization. In contrast, Vance has dedicated fans of both his fantasy and his science fiction stories and he was never comfortable being labeled simply as a science fiction writer.
"Is it conceivable that the Institute wields more control over the human psyche than we suspect?" - Jan Holberk Vaenz LXII |
In the Exode trilogy, I simply imagine that the Institute was required for creation of the Buld Reality and I have fun imagining that it was Asimov's replicoid that had to make sure that Vance's invention was known to the Editor.
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