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Hana on Luk'ru

Back in 2012, I began a serious investigation of Genesaunt society when I started writing a new science fiction story called Exode. The two main Genesaunt factions (Interventionists and Overseers) were to be revealed to readers through the eyes of Hana, an Earth woman who having given birth to an oddly mutated baby is taken away from Earth, beginning a great adventure of discovery among the far stars of the galaxy.

Kach and Parthney take Hana
to the Andromeda galaxy

In earlier stories set in the Exodemic Fictional Universe, the usual destination for new exiles from Earth was Observer Base on the Moon. For Exode, I was soon off to a more distant world, the planet Hemmal, located in the Galactic Core. Hemmal was the home world of Parthney, the Interventionist agent who had to remove Hana from Earth.

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Zooming out even further from Earth, Parthney gets caught up in a search for the Creators, the unseen aliens who have long been performing genetics experiments on we humans. Parthney and Kach visit the planet Luk'ru, a world in the Andromeda galaxy. Along for the ride is their son and Hana, who eventually raise their own children on the planet Luk'ru.

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One of the children of Hana who is born on Luk'ru, Izhiun, makes the long journey back to Earth and passes a set of information nanites on to the Editor.

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

However, the specially created female analogue of Asimov could not enter into the AR Simulator. She adopted the name Eustacia Pasimov and developed her own project at Observer Base: attempting to carry out her own breeding experiments in an attempt to replicate what had been accomplished in the far future of the Asimov Reality. Eustacia worked towards the goal of creating a human variant that could use the Bimanoid Interface to achieve the type of telepathy that R. Gohrlay had previously crafted for the Asterothropes.

Asterothrope

At the end of Part 2 of The Pasimov Project, Eustacia is pregnant, carrying a fetus that was crafted by combining genes from Izhiun and Georgy White. With Izhiun's odd mixture of Asterothrope, Ek'col and Kac'hin genes, will Eustacia give birth to a baby that qualifies as "human" under the terms of the Trysta-Grean Pact?

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Georgy herself inherited some special gene combinations from her parents, so she has some telepathic abilities and is able to achieve telepathic contact with the fetus that is growing inside of Eustacia. In an attempt to control Georgy's telepathic abilities, she secretly undergoes "nanotransformation", an attempt to modify the function of her femtobot and zeptite endosymbionts using rather crude nanites that were smuggled into Observer Base from the planet Tar'tron. On Earth, Rylla's telepathic connection to the fetus must be boosted, allowing it to become a mind clone of Rylla.

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".

clones

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

During August, I like to celebrate the science fiction of Jack Vance. In 2018 I wrote a story called "Minus Yōd" that includes discussion of an imaginary alternate version of Vance's story from 1952: "Cholwell's Chickens".

July

Harlan Ellison

In July I wrote a science fiction story that is based on the video game Civilization: Beyond Earth. "Exoditions on Cynk" describes the fate of Ivory Fersoni and how she ended up on an ancient planet of the Phari. 

June
During June, I was busy playing Beyond Earth.

May

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I blogged about the impact of Harlan Ellison on Star Trek.

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.

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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

January
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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