In the Ekcolir Reality Original cover art by Michael Mariano, Edmund Emshwiller and Edward Valigursky. |
I recently asked Gohrlay who her favorite science fiction story writer was. Apparently in the Ekcolir Reality, Katherine MacLean was mainly an influential editor within her own science fiction publishing empire. One of the magazines that she developed was called Masculinena. That word has little meaning in our Reality, but in the Ekcolir Reality it meant something like "alternate worlds".
In the Ekcolir Reality Original cover art by Frank Freas |
In the 'Space Queen' saga, PCR is used to obtain evidence for the presence of aliens (most specifically, the Kac'hin) on Earth. When the protagonist (Lathia Tarkin, a scientist modeled after Kate) publishes a scientific article about her findings, she comes to the attention of the Overseers and is taken off of Earth. Most of the 'Space Queen' saga documents Lathia's travels to worlds of the Galactic Core where she learns about the origins of both the Kac'hin and Earth's humans.
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The last eleven chapters of the Space Queen saga documented Lathia's return to Earth and her startling revelation of Earth's secret history in the popular press and a "final showdown" with the "Kac'hin ruler of Earth", modeled after Grean. Apparently Kate MacLean was a master of science fiction story writing collaboration, and in the Ekcolir Reality she wrote very little, but she was an endless source of story ideas for other writers.
Next: censored science fiction in the Final Reality.
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