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January 2022. I began the year with a set of three blog posts about the science fiction stories of Harry Clement Stubbs (he was born in 1922). For some reason, the third of those, "Nereid Time", was the most visited post of the three. I suppose Nereids are a fairly popular topic.
Historical Archive. However, the most visited blog post for January was Origin of Nyrtia, a page which holds the second chapter of my 70,000 word science fiction story The Historical Archive. That story makes heavy use of a Reality Simulation System which allows Eddy to visit R. Nyrtia inside a simulation of the First Reality.
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Teleportation. A close second for popularity in February was "Progress", a blog post in which I commented on some old science fiction stories about teleportation. I took some of those old stories as inspiration when writing my own 30,000 word science fiction story, The Prisoner of L2.
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Telepathy. As told in The Prisoner of L2, selected humans in Alastor Cluster were secretly provided with some teleportation technology that facilitated the analysis of gene patterns required for human telepathy. Related Reading: The Frenchyhysur Process (a 25,000 word follow-on story for The Prisoner of L2).
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The most visited normal blog page for March is "Totally Random" which has the first chapter of my 21,000 word science fiction story Edison's Endosymbiont Experiments. In that story, I imagined that in the Ekcolir Reality, the analogue of Ray Cummings, a Interventionist agent named Reynette, tried to provide Thomas Edison with access to advanced nanotechnology.
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April 2022. The most visited wikifiction blog post for April was "Seldon Crisis", the second of a series of posts about Apple TV's Foundation television show.
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Clones. Also in April, I started a new science fiction story called The Cythyrya Investigation. In that story, one of Manny the bumpha's agents on Earth reveals herself to Eddy. Jutta is a clone of the woman who appeared in a story by Jack Vance: Jyryl Tynzy and her clones Zan Zu or Drusilla and otherwise. Jutta is like Nora, an Interventionist agent who got trapped on Earth with no way to get away from this primitive world. After discovering the existence of the Reality Simulation System, Jutta wants to go into a past Reality.
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May 2022. The most visited wikifiction blog post for May was "For Womankind". I tried to watch Apple TV's 2019 episodes of For All Mankind. I could not make it through the first 10 episodes of the show. 👎
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August 2022. "Vance 1952" was the most popular blog post in August. This post was my annual look at old science fiction stories by Jack Vance and included commentary on Vance's 1952 story "Seven Exits from Bocz" which concerns opening up portals to other universes where there are different physical laws.
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September 2022. The most visited wikifiction blog post for September was "Dr. Fitzjames", the 4th in a series of posts concerning science fiction stories about doctors. Dr. Fitzjames was a character in Isaac Asimov's 1950 story "Legal Rites".
Also in September I began a story called The Nanites of Love. However, this story might eventually be merged with The Cythyrya Investigation. (see my comments above for April).
October 2022. Among my four blog posts during October, the most visited is "Thought Waves". That blog post includes my comments on the early version of Isaac Asimov's The End of Eternity. That version of the story was published in The Alternate Asimovs.
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November 2022. The most visited blog post in November was "Scientific Liberties" which began as an attempt to explore a set of old science fiction stories by Daniel Keyes. That investigative expedition included a re-read of his 1959 story "Flowers for Algernon" which I first read in the 1970s.
Along the way, I also read "Medusa" from the February 1942 issue of Astounding Science-Fiction and "To Marry Medusa" (1958), both by Theodore Sturgeon.
At the end of that November blog post, I commented on three stories by Mari Wolf: "The House on the Vacant Lot" (time travel), "Robots of the World! Arise!" and "Homo Inferior" (the far future of human telepathy).
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#1 - The most visited wikifiction blog post of 2022 is "New Aliens" which I'll take as an indication of the continuing popularity of all things related to Star Trek.
Related Reading: the 2021 year in review. 2023.
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