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Fiction in the Final Reality.
Cover art by Brian Lewis. |
The
Reality Change that brought our world into existence was complex. Some of that complexity involved a group of
Interventionists who operated out of
Eanru House. Due to
temporal momentum, there were attempts at the start of the
Buld Reality to continue the Interventionist program of the
Writers Block so as to make use of the
science fiction genre as a way to provide Earthlings with information about alien visitors to Earth. Exactly how extensive those "efforts" were is not clear because they were all "edited out" of existence by the time Earth had reached the
Final Reality.
Zeta's
replicoid has been exploring the archives of the
Writers Block, paying particular attention to the fuzzy boundary between the
Ekcolir Reality and the Final Reality. According to Zeta, one of the writers in the Buld Reality who had his stories "edited out" of the Final Reality was J. G. Ballard.
Just before the Final Reality, Ballard published what was intended to be a "warning" to the people of the Final Reality. That warning was motivated by events in the
Ekcolir Reality, a Reality in which the Antarctic ice cap melted,
sea levels rose nearly 200 feet and Earth's oceans became an acidic wasteland.
According to Zeta, in the Buld Reality, Ballard published a long science fiction poem in
Ambit magazine. The year was 1959 and Ballard explicitly described the role of fossil fuel exploitation and burning as a source of greenhouse gases and global warming. Apparently the poem was mostly about how
Cecilie worked to convince Ballard to write the poem. According to
Yōd, the poetry version of "Science Fiction From Nowhere" had structural similarities to '
Endymion' by Keats. As the poem unfolds, Ballard slowly comes to realize that Cecilie is not from Earth, but rather, she is a constructed human who naturally resides in the
Hierion Domain.
As one of the named character in "Science Fiction From Nowhere",
Grean was depicted as trying to make sure that a team of
Interventionists on Earth do not violate the
Rules of Intervention. That was a difficult task because there was a well-coordinate team of
Retrofuturians who were intent on sharing information about
hierions and
sedrons with the people of Earth. Finally, Cecilie and Grean reached an agreement by which the poem "Science Fiction From Nowhere" was "retracted" from
Ambit, but in the Final Reality Cecilie and
Thomas were later be able to pass on some limited knowledge of hierions to
the Editor.
Just how many such "retractions" and "cleanup jobs" were needed right before the Final Reality is not clear, but
Shana Peterson (operating out of Eanru House) was apparently involved in publishing several of the "retracted" works. Zeta has identified James Schmitz as another author who had to be "edited" by Grean. Apparently Schmitz wrote a story called
Exoplanet Legality that described in some detail how hierions were manufactured in the
Triskelion star system during the
Asimov Reality.
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