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This blog is highly focused on science fiction and since I suffer from "fantasy blindness", I never have much to say about forms of fantasy that drift free from a science anchor. Fantasy blindness is like color blindness: I just don't "get" most fantasy stories that are not intimately involved with technology or a scientific puzzle.
Last year I mentioned the Probability Zero project of Astounding magazine which was an invitation to let some impossible fantasies slip into a science fiction magazine. With Probability Zero as a prod and inspiration, I went in a direction that I can't usually go and wrote some "science fantasy" stories about miniature flying replicoids (see "Final Change"). Since I can't really write fantasy, I provided myself with a security blanket by imagining that in some unexplained way, negative mass hierions could provide a scientific basis for oddities like the flying Synpaz.
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For my fan fiction stories about Alastor Cluster, I imagine Grean the Kac'hin is in competition with R. Gohrlay, both of them trying to create powerful telepathic humans. To aid her efforts, Grean decides to start making use of robots to help engineer telepathic alien-human hybrids. The robots of Triskelion can make additional models of robot, as needed to support Grean's work. One model of Triskelion robot, the Nottengs, are crafted for use on Ottengla, where they play an important role protecting the settlers against starmenter raids.
robots of Triskelion |
"Exploring Europa" by rpreteau license: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 |
Robotic drone for exploring Titan. |
The Gentle Giants of Ganymede, etc. |
The Immortality Option |
Asimov never said anything in his short (3 page) story about the storm-pup or other "natives" of Titan being artificial life forms. However, if there was an alien source for robot parts on Titan, then maybe the "baby" of the MA model robot was actually a hybrid construct, made from a mixture of stolen positronic robot spare parts from Earth and other components manufactured by the Titans.
Image made with Elena17 by Eclesi4stiK available under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. |
In Chapter 12 of "Meet the Phari", Eynta is told that she pregnant. This news is provided to Eynta by Niel, a telepathic Notteng robot of Ottengla. Eynta is about to embark on a journey to the planet Viole where she will try to raise enough money to buy a cheap spaceship and go to Kwenslo. On Viole, Eynta will earn money while working as an Embryonics technician and making use of her telepathic sashei to attract and handle her customers. Niel warns Eynta that she won't be able to successfully complete her Embryonics work if she is carrying her mind clone embryo. Eynta is talked into transferring her embryo into the body of a Notteng robot who will gestate the baby to term.
However, as depicted in Chapter 10 of "Meet the Phari", after Eynta reaches Kwenslo, the course of Time is altered. Kwystyk and Konywhn jump back 3 weeks into the past and inform Eynta that she no longer needs to go to Kwenslo. In this newly created Reality, Eynta is able to gestate her own baby mind clone.
Next: story illustration with Daz Studio
Related Reading: Chapter 11 of "Meet the Phari".
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