Hana on Luk'ru |
Kach and Parthney take Hana to the Andromeda galaxy |
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After briefly living on Earth and helping the Dead Widowers, Izhiun is captured by Overseers and sent to the Moon. When Georgy White arrives at Observer Base, Izhiun is there, experimenting with nanotechnology. Using a nanite prosthetic, he has managed to incapacitate his own telepathic abilities, allowing him to remain on Earth after the sudden arrival of Bimanoid Interface 2. Below, I review some of my major Sci Fi blogging topics for 2018 including the origin of the Bimanoid Interface version 2.
from Galaxy magazine in 1955 |
Izhiun on the Moon - December 2018
I'm currently writing about a native resident at Observer Base, Eustacia Pasimov. Eustacia was created by genetic alteration of Isaac Asimov's genome, artificially producing a female clone of Asimov. This genetic manipulation was performed when it was realized that for some reason no female analogue of Asimov had ever existed in the many Realities of Earth's Reality Chain. It was suspected that Asimov should be able to access hidden information within the AR Simulator of Eternity, but several attempts to use Asimov as the "key" for entry to the AR Simulator had all failed. Maybe only a female analogue of Asimov could access the AR Simulator?
The Asimov Reality |
Asterothrope |
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Alice Wroke |
November 2018
During November I was in in the mood for thinking about Jack Vance and his science fiction stories. In his novel The Book of Dreams, Vance described Alice Wroke as "miraculous". Exactly what were her origins? I like to imagine that in an alternate Reality, Vance might have written additional stories about the adventures of Kirth Gersen and Alice Wroke. Similarly, I have fan-ish fantasies about additional stories (example: The Society of Matriarchs) featuring Vance's characters Glinnes and Duissane.
"Telek" by Jack Vance |
October 2018
During 2018, I was paying special attention to the science fiction stories of Theodore Sturgeon, who was born in 1918. In October, I blogged about "Twink", a short story by Sturgeon that involves telepathy. It was useful for me to think about old published stories dealing with telepathy while I was developing my thinking about "Rylla" and the telepathic Mind Clone Network.
Phenence |
September
In September, I wrote a short story about Phenence and her first adventure on Earth. Phenence was one of the clones of Gohrlay.
Another story that I wrote in September is about the mysterious "Bonny Fennland" who introduces the Editor to the science fiction of Jack Vance. Bonny has a helper "Cal", an artificial life form who is named after the robot in Isaac Asimov's short story called "Cal".
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August
During August I wrote an account of the day when the Bimanoid Interface was upgraded. That alteration was a foundational event that made possible the creation of the Mind Clone Network.
Ivory Fersoni |
July
Harlan Ellison |
June
During June, I was busy playing Beyond Earth.
May
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April
I often blog about the science fiction of Jack Vance in May, but in 2018 I had a blog post about Vance in April. I suggested the idea that Kirth Gersen was a deep cover IPCC agent.
It was in that blog post that I first suggest Araminta Smade could exist in "the real world". I used that idea in a chapter of A Search Beyond.
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March
In The Last Replicoid , I described Azynov as the last replicoid that was made by Grean, the artificial device used by Many Sails that could enter into the Asimov Reality Simulator of Eternity. As a copy of Isaac Asimov, Azynov has all of Asimov's memories, but his personality has been altered to remove his obsession for writing.
fictional chemistry |
February
In February of 2018, I blogged about a strange 1927 story about telepathy called "The Tissue-Culture King" by Julian Huxley.
Let's Make a Genre |
In 2018 I blogged about the new X-Files season. I also began 2018 by blogging about Theodore Sturgeon who was born in 1918. I did some retro-reading of his 1953 science fiction story, "The Wages of Synergy".
In January, I also wrote a short story called "Let's Make a Genre". This is a story about an Interventionist mission on Earth aimed at helping to create the science fiction literary genre.
Related Reading: 2019 year in review - 2017 year in review
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