Sîmulated Vacatĭon

Figure 1. Image source.

This blog page (below) has Part 14 of my Decade in Review (DiR, see Part 1). All of the blog posts in this series have titles that contain several unusual characters. This blog post is called "Sîmulated Vacatĭon" because in early 2024 I collaborated with chatbots to write the science fiction novel The Nanite Smuggler (the complete story is here). Most of the events, including Tyhry's family vacation on Threy,  in take place inside the Reality Simulation System.

In this Decade in Review (DiR) I am exploring AI-generated images as alternative illustrations for my old science fiction stories. I'm using software such as Whisk, WOMBO Dream, and Leonardo to generate updated story illustrations. An example of an AI-generated image is shown to the right in Figure 1.

Today, I had Gemini access the full text of The Nanite Smuggler and Gemini generated the following summary: 

Figure 2. Tyhry on Threy. - by Whisk & Wombo.

 The novel begins on May 15th, 2040, with Tyhry and Marda entering a simulation of the planet Threy in the Asimov Reality. They are joined by Marda's mother, Rylla Onway, and Tyhry's parents, Zeta Gohrlay and Eddy. The group is on vacation, and they encounter a robot named Systolina Kayto, who is a nature guide for the resort. There are discussions about nanotechnology, different "Realities" (timelines of Earth), and the Sedron Domain of the universe. Tyhry has a secret nanotechnology research laboratory in the Ekcolir Reality where she studies Fru'wu nanites and hopes to obtain Yastyn hair nanites.

Figure 3. Kasty the Yastyn. Image generated by Gemini.

 The plot involves Tyhry's attempts to obtain advanced alien femtobots from the Yastyn species on Threy, despite Manny, a "bumpha" (an advanced artificial life-form made of zeptites), trying to prevent the transfer of dangerous technology to Earth. Tyhry's goal is to make immortal replicoid copies of her aging parents. She works with replicoid copies of Marda and Anthony to achieve her goals, and they attempt to telepathically contact the Phari, advanced beings who reside in the Hierion Domain and are masters of teleportation technology.

The story includes events such as Marda intentionally injuring herself to distract Manny, and the Phari intervening to teleport Marda and Yastyn femtobots to Tyhry's lab on Earth. Ultimately, F. Tyhry (a replicoid copy of Tyhry) successfully creates immortal replicoid copies of Eddy and Zeta using scanned body data retrieved from the Sedron Time Stream. Manny, while acknowledging F. Tyhry's success, takes the immortal replicoids to a planet called Tar'tron to observe how humans deal with immortality. The novel concludes with the original Tyhry and Marda returning to the Final Reality, and Systolina, the robot from Threy, also appearing on Earth, having been teleported by the Phari.

Figure 4. Alastor Cluster. Image by Whisk

I asked Gemini: "Gemini, based on your knowledge of the fictional universe in the science fiction story The Nanite Smuggler, explain why the Realty Simulation system has temporal blocks that restrict access to future eras of the Ekcolir Reality and the Asimov Reality."

{I've edited Gemini's excessively long replies for brevity, below...}

Gemini: "... the temporal blocks serve as a safeguard within the Reality Simulation system, ensuring the stability and controlled evolution of the various timelines within the fictional universe."

Me: "Gemini, based on your knowledge of the fictional universe in the science fiction story "The Nanite Smuggler", how is it possible that Alastor Cluster only existed in the Asimov Reality, one of the many past historical timelines of Earth?"

Gemini: "... the Alastor Cluster is a phenomenon unique to the specific historical trajectory and cosmic configuration of the Asimov Reality. It's a testament to how vastly different these parallel timelines can be, encompassing not just Earth's immediate history but also its place and discoveries within the broader universe."

Figure 5. Into the Hierion Domain.
Image generated by Gemini.

 Me: "Gemini, do you know the source of this text: 'Under the negotiated terms of the Trysta Truce, the positronic robots worked with their allies, the Phari, to create Alastor Cluster as a laboratory where telepathic humans could evolve under artificial selection. Alastor Cluster was an artificial star cluster with 30,000 habitable planets, created by the Phari. Alastor Cluster existed only in the Asimov Reality and every planet of this Galaxy with a technological society was placed in orbit around a star of Alastor Cluster by means of Phari teleportation technology.' ?"

Gemini: "That text is not present in the 61,000-word science fiction novel 'The Nanite Smuggler' that I have accessed and reviewed."

I had to conclude (from the above) that Gemini could not successfully process the entirety of the story and coherently discuss it. The quoted text about the Phari creating Alastor Cluster in in the final chapter of The Nanite Smuggler. I then tried having Claude read The Nanite Smuggler and I got the message shown in the image below...

Limits of the free Claude LLM.

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Maybe the paid versions of Gemini and Claude are better and have a larger context window for user input. I'm too cheap to find out. 

Here is an alternative summary of The Nanite Smuggler: Manny the bumpha has long struggled to catch up with the technological wizardry of the Phari, the masters of the Hierion Domain. While Huaoshy dominion over the Sedron Domain has placed the bumpha in control of the fate of Earth, the meddlesome Phari can still cause trouble's for Manny. Manny attempts to make use of her human apprentice, Tyhry, to expose weaknesses in the Phari defense of their secret homeland inside the Hierion Domain. Unaware of how she is being used by Manny, Tyhry is pleased to obtain some advanced programmable nanites, which she used to make immortal artificial life copies of her parents.

Portal to the Hierion Domain.

Soon after completing The Nanite Smuggler, I began a new science fiction story called Vythoth the Chresmoscopist. Several plot elements and characters from The Nanite Smuggler were carried over and included in Vythoth the Chresmoscopist. In Part 1 of Vythoth the Chresmoscopist, Tyhry is depicted as building an interstallar spaceship, the Sedrover. Immediately after Tyhry makes use of her new E-wave communications equipment to contact her replicoid copy in the Final Reality, the robot Systolina Kayto suddenly appears inside Tyhry's nanite research laboratory inside the Ekcolir Reality Simulation.

The image shown to the left was made back in 2024 and can be compared to Figure 5, above, which was made by Gemini here in 2025. Gemini's version looks like an illustration for some silly fantasy story where Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion head off down the yellow brick road for a rousing adventure with flying monkeys.

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 Reality Change RetCon. One of the plot points in The Nanite Smuggler was that it became possible to cause a Reality Change that altered the so-called Final Reality. Previously, in City on the Edge of Tomorrow, Tyhry had recovered her tryp'At anatomical features before the family vacation on Threy. However, so as not to offend my chatbot collaborators, The Nanite Smuggler was completely G-rated and Tyhry was not allowed to have extra breasts, a penis and two vaginas. Vythoth the Chresmoscopist explicitly depicts Tyhry as reverting her body to its tryp'At form after the family vacation on Threy. We can pretend that this change was due to the Reality Change that took place during the events in The Nanite Smuggler.

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In Part 2 of Vythoth the Chresmoscopist, I finally wrote about a long-planned science fiction story plot element: Tyhry meeting her analogue from the Ekcolir Reality. However, when Lexy arrives at Tyhry's nanite research laboratory, Tyhry is very busy and she simply places Lexy into the pattern buffer of the Reality Simulation System until Tyhry has time to deal with her.

Upon returning to the Final Reality, Tyhry is able to make a telepathic connection into the mind of Anthony. Tyhry's replicoid copy who has been living with Anthony has begun to learn the pattern of Anthony's positronic brain.

the tryp'At phenotype (source)

Systolina and Tyhry hurry to the airport to meet Marda and Rylla. Tyhry is eager to show Marda her newly acquired penis, but
Systolina is positioned to get an early sneak preview. Systolina has recovered her "innate" positronic telepathic abilities, but in the Final Reality, her telepathic abilities are much weaker than when she is inside the Asimov Reality Simulation. Systolina is trying to open her mind to Tyhry's telepathic inspection and explain to Tyhry the problem that has arisen on Threy, but Tyhry's mind does not easily resonate with positronic brain patterns.

Figure 6. Tyhry's tryp'At-style ear.

In Part 3 of Vythoth the Chresmoscopist, Systolina explains that she has come into conflict with a robot named Nymerya Coryn. Tyhry starts to imagine that it might be possible to exile Nymerya Coryn inside the Ekcolir Reality simulation, the one Reality in which Mosy (the historical figure that gave rise to the Moses legend) died young. Systolina tells Tyhry: "I'm constrained by my programming. I need to make everyone happy... not only people like Rylla, but even Nymerya Coryn. I want to find him a new place where he will be happy, where his religious mode of thought can be useful."

Mosy's vision of the
future - image source

In Part 4 of Vythoth the Chresmoscopist, Tyhry realizes that by using developmental control zeptites to recover her genetically-programmed tryp'At body structure, she had boosted her telepathic abilities. Upon returning to her parents' home with Rylla and Marda, Tyhry now has a strong telepathic link to Anthony. Anthony admits to Tyhry that he has been telepathically monitoring her thoughts for the past 20 years while blocking her from telepathically accessing his own thoughts.

Systolina on Earth (source)

Tyhry finally show her mother that she has been using medical nanites to recover her genetically-programmed tryp'At body features (see Figure 6). Using an hierion probe, Tyhry helps Eddy recover some memories that Manny had suppressed. He now recalls that there were multiple copies of both Marda and Tyhry deployed on Earth in the Ekcolir Reality by Manny, including in the time of Mosy.

Using the new Reality Viewing mode of Eddy's computer, Tyhry finds an image of what looks like Systolina with Mosy in the Ekcolir Reality. Tyhry hypothesizes that a copy of Systolina was used to alter the course of history in the Ekcolir Reality by altering the trajectory of Mosy's life.

Vythoth the Fru'wu

In Part 5 of Vythoth the Chresmoscopist, Tyhry returns to her nanite research laboratory inside the Ekcolir Reality Simulation. Tyhry brings Lexy out of the pattern buffer of the Reality Simulation System. As described in "Telepaths of Site Q", Grean had previously learned about a group of tryp'At who had lived in Mars, Iowa during the Ekcolir Reality. One of those tryp'At used the name Abby and was an analogue of Marda. Now, when Lexy sees Systolina (who has been made to look like Marda), Lexy thinks she is seeing Abby. 

Figure 7. The Final Reality.
Image Generated by Whisk.

Then Vythoth the Fru'wu appears inside the nanite research laboratory, arriving by teleportation. Vythoth has long been studying Tyhry's efforts to build the spaceship Sedrover. In preparation for meeting Tyhry, Vythoth has arranged his nanite components so as to take on a female humanoid body form that Vythoth hopes will not seem too alien to Tyhry.

 Creating the Final Reality. Lexy, Vythoth and Systolina are all competing for Tyhry's attention at the time when Tyhry is trying to make final preparations for the first flight of Sedrover. Tyhry begins to imagine that a copy of Systolina the robot was used as an Interventionist agent on Earth to trigger the Reality Change that ended the Ekcolir Reality and allowed Mosy to not die at a young age in the Final Reality.

the Sedron Time Stream

 The Chresmoscope. Vythoth tells Tyhry, "We Fru'wu have a device that allows us to View future events; the Chresmoscope." Tyhry suspects that the Fru'wu have a device that helps them to tap into the Sedron Time Stream. Vythoth has used his Chresmoscope to known in advance that he would have this meeting with Tyhry inside her laboratory.

In Part 6 of Vythoth the Chresmoscopist, Tyhry visits her own personal fork of Threy where replicoid copies of Marda and Tyhry were the first to experiment with recovering their tryp'At body forms. The replicoid copy of Marda that she has impregnated the replicoid copy of Tyhry who lives there in the Simulation fork of Threy. Tyhry can see that the lower two tryp'At style breast of the pregnant Tyhry have grown as large as the breasts of Lexy.

The Alice infites (source).

In Part 7 of Vythoth the Chresmoscopist, Tyhry completes a strange time loop by contacting Tar'tron. Tyhry makes sure that Tarynon knows about the ability of Anthony to manipulate human memories. That will/has allow Tarynon to place that information into the Sedron Time Stream where Vythoth will/has found it and passed that information to Tyhry.

Tyhry has been experimenting with ways to conceal her thoughts from telepaths and she believes that being able to block the telepathic mind of Nymerya Coryn will be essential when the time comes to shift him from the Asimov Reality Simulation to the Ekcolir Reality Simulation. Tyhry wonders if infites can be used to prevent someone from accessing their own memories.

Marda's dream of First Contact.

 Ethical Concerns. Systolina tells Tyhry, "I see what you are thinking Tyhry, but is it ethical to erase Nym's memories of Threy?" However, Tyhry thinks that Alice Wroke might be a source of infites that she can program and use to control the telepathic mind of Nymerya Coryn.

As described in the May 25, 2024 blog post titled "The Sedron Space Drive", Tyhry needed some help to obtain the technology needed to allow Sedrover to travel at faster-than-light speeds. In Part 8 of Vythoth the Chresmoscopist, Marda and Tyhry are under the influence of klox21 and they are both having strange dreams about contact with aliens that have been stimulated by information arriving from the future by way of the Sedron Time Stream.

Tyhry on Sedrover.

When Sedrover uses its interstellar sedron-fueled space drive for the first time, it fails to move faster-than-light. Tyhry speculates that they have used the wrong type of sedron, but is was the only type of sedron that they were capable of obtaining and purifying on Earth.

Sorsyph in her laboratory.

As Sedrover is nearing Mars, they receive a radio transmission from Gyryph, in English. One of the cats that lives onboard Sedrover telepathically contacts Tyhry: I am Sorsyph. I suppose you'd like to visit Gyryph. 

Tyhry's mind pattern is sent into the Hierion Domain (where Gyryph resides) and she meets Sorsyph the Felydyan and Tyhry has been swapped into the body of another Felydyan. Sorsyph explains to Tyhry that the Felydyans are a branch of the tryp'At from the far future of the Ekcolir Reality.

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 2025 preview. Sorsyph confirms that Sedrover was fueled with the wrong type of sedron. I never finished Vythoth the Chresmoscopist, but in 2025, in another story called "D*", Sedrover is depicted as having traveled to distant star systems and then returned to Earth.

At the bottom of the June 1, 2024 blog post called "The Felydyans of Gyryph" it says "Coming in 2025: Part 9 of Vythoth the Chresmoscopist.", so maybe I will be able to write additional chapters of Vythoth the Chresmoscopist. 

Coming attractions in 2025: image source

In "D*", it is discovered that planets of the Phari Network that existed in the Asimov Reality are absent from the Ekcolir Reality. In "D*", Tyhry's efforts are directed towards finding a way to teleport herself into the Eternity space-time bubble.

Updated in 2025 by Mr. Wombo.

 The Fesarians. In July of 2024, in Part 1 of "The Fesarians", I began a new fan-fiction science fiction story in which a Star Trek-inspired character, Bailey, meets the Fesarians. For my story, the event take place in the far future of the Ekcolir Reality.

"The Fesarians" begins with a visit by the Fesarius to Earth in the year 9483 BCE, when some humans are removed from Earth and taken onboard the Fesarius.

In "The Fesarians", I depict Balok as being a bumpha, who can taken on any required physical form. The humans from Earth are transplanted to a newly made copy of Earth, elsewhere in the galaxy. This is part of a routine bumpha procedure to have backup copies of primitive species on multiple planets in case some technological disaster occurs on one world. 

Dani (source)

 2265. The second scene of "The Fesarians" jumps ahead in time to 2265 C.E. at a point in time soon after Balok has taken Dave Bailey off of the Enterprise. Balok introduces Bailey to Dani, a positronic robot that is using a human female body form.

Balok tasks Bailey and Dani with going to the Elemacha star system where human colonists have come into conflict with native creatures (the Merovae) of the habitable planet, Elemacha-z. Bailey meets two aliens named Ienaghwy and Ylyndra, both telepaths, who will be able to support the mission on Elemacha-z.

Ienaghwy with Talosian technology.

In Part 2 of "The Fesarians", Dani begins to deal with the electrical power distribution problem on Elemacha-z. The mayor of the Port Cooway colony on Elemacha-z, a woman named Xylo, suspects that a power technician named Talia Vance has sabotaged power distribution lines that link solar collectors to residences.

Elemacha-z has a strict anti-contamination protocol for all humans who go to the planet. When Dani went through decontamination, a body imaging scan revealed to Xylo that Dani is a robot and does not seem to exist in the databases of the Federation.

Talia's clone sister, Gyulya.

 At Talia's House. In my fan-fiction version of the Federation, there are tryp'At from the planet Trypton, not Vulcans. Talia Vance is a human-tryp'At hybrid with some telepathic abilities. Talia tells Bailey, "Since arriving on Elemacha, my telepathic abilities have mysteriously been expanded." In particular, Talia's telepathic mind can link into the Sedron Time Stream and she knows that Dani is a spy, trying to work secretly with other positronic robots. Talia and Ylyndra agree that the Merovae are quite simple organisms with limited telepathic ability. However, Talia can telepathically sense some other telepathic mind on Elemacha-z.

When Dani repairs a power line, the Merovae attack Dani and begin to alter Dani's mind, removing infites that Balok had placed inside Dani. 

Talia's vision of Xylo on Elemacha-z

 2259. In Part 3 of "The Fesarians", the narrative shifts to 2259 C.E. on the planet Martiz 23 six years before the arrival of Bailey on Elemacha-z. On Martiz 23, Talia obtains synapex linkage nanites from the alien Extqua. Readers are introduced to Talia's clone sisters, Lyssa and Gyulya. Talia also has a future vision of Elemacha-z.

In Part 4 of "The Fesarians", events continue from those at the end of Part 2. Readers are told that Xylo and her cloned sisters were members of a genetically engineered human variant called the Huxy. The Huxy had three types of sex chromosomes: X, Y and H-chromosomes. The Huxy also had three genders: female, male and hermaphrodite. Xylo and her "sisters" were male Huxy, but all of the Huxy had the appearance of human females. Xylo's sister, Aethe, informs Talia that Talia's sister, Lyssa is now pregnant.

The tryp'At Hybrids: Talia and Lyssa.

By linking their telepathic minds, Ienaghw, Ylyndra, Talia, Lyssa, Xylo and Aethe are able to establish telepathic contact to the alien Noema, a sentient plant-like creature of Elemacha-z that they had previously over-looked.

Ylyndra realizes that Balok guided the human colonization of Elemacha-z as part of a complex plan designed to find the secret base of the positronic robots within the Hierion Domain. 

In Part 5 of "The Fesarians", the events shift back in time again to when the Talia clones were in training at Starbase 29 as part of Starfleet's Planetary Colonization Service. Back in 2024, I had Gemini make an image depicting the Galactic Core. I repeated that science fiction story illustration challenge here in 2025. The Imagen software still cannot correctly make a scene depicting the central part of the galaxy. 

Figure 8. Near the Galactic Core.
Image generated by Gemini.

The image shown in Figure 8 is a composite made from two separate Imagen-generated images, one for the space station and the other for the star-field.

At the time of the events depicted in "The Fesarians", the tryp'At have existed on the planet Trypton for the past 11,000 years. Before that, their origins can be traced to a planet of the Galactic Core called Tar'tron. It was on Tar'tron that Asterothrope gene patterns were sent into the far future by the bumpha and their H-chromosome genetically engineered to make possible human variants who were inter-fertile with the conventional humans of Earth. At the time of the events depicted in "The Fesarians", the tryp'At know nothing about the planet Tar'tron.

Port Cooway

Gyulya works with Xylo's sister Erni on a team project for their subspace communications course. Soon the three Talia clones and the three Xylo clones begin collaborating to plan the colonization of Elemacha-z. 

The Talia and Xylo clones are all hermaphrodites and they are pleased to find that they are quite sexually compatible. While in training at Starbase 29, Talia learns that she can use Extqua synapex technology to strengthen her telepathic connection to the Xylo clones.

At the end of 2024, without bothering to complete "The Fesarians", I began a new science fiction story called "D*", which I will describe in the next and final blog post of this Decade in Review (DiR).

Next: Part 15 of the Decade in Review.

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Rȩplicōids Ɵn Ȩdgǝ

Figure 6a. The tryp'At infites.
   Image Generated by Mr. Wombo.

 This blog page (below) has Part 13 of my Decade in Review (DiR, see Part 1). The blog posts in this series have titles that contain unusual characters. This blog post is called "Rȩplicōids Ɵn Ȩdgǝ" (Replicoids on Edge) because in 2023 I wrote a science fiction story called City on the Edge of Tomorrow which depicted Tyhry as having many femtobot replicoid copies that had been made by the Reality Simulation System.

Figure 6b. Nanite programming.
   Image Generated by Mr. Wombo.

In this Decade in Review (DiR) I am exploring AI-generated images as alternative illustrations for my old science fiction stories. I'm using software such as Whisk, WOMBO Dream, and Leonardo to generate updated story illustrations. An example of an AI-generated image is shown above in Figure 6a, for which Mr. Wombo (my 'pet' name for WOMBO Dream) generated an image depicting infites (information nanites) that can insert information into human brains.

The image to the left shows another image that was generated by WOMBO Dream that I imagine is Tyhry working with some programmable nanites that are held inside a hierion confinement field. Here on this blog page, I'm continuing to number the new AI-generated images as numbered in Part 12 of this Decade in Review (DiR).

Figure 6c. Nanite programming laboratory by Whisk.

 AI Story Time. After completing The Hua Nanites, I got seriously involved with exploring Large Language Model chatbots and AI-generated images as science fiction story illustrations. At the start of The Hua Nanites, it is mentioned that Tyhry and Marda are planning a vacation inside the Asimov Reality Simulation. On April 2, 2023 I published a blog post titled "Story time with Bard" in which I tried to get help from Bard (now known as Gemini) to write a science fiction story about an attempt by Tyhry to obtain programmable nanites from inside the Asimov Reality Simulation, what would eventually become a story called The Femtobot Smuggler. Bard had a very limited memory at that time. 

Figure 7. Tyhry with hair nanites - by Whisk.

Then, in an April 16, 2023 blog post titled "Story writing with ChatGPT" I experimented with a second chatbot for help in science fiction story writing. In addition to a small context window, ChatGPT struggled to remember basic facts about characters such as the idea that Manny the bumpha is a "she", even though I specified that fact in the story information that I provided.

In The Femtobot Smuggler, Tyhry hopes to obtain programmable hair nanites from aliens on the planet Threy. ChatGPT suggested that Manny is a "holographic projection of a deceased person's mind", which seemed like an AI hallucination.

Figure 8a. Nanite programming
laboratory - by Whisk.

Given the limited context windows for LLMs in 2023, I began making use of the chatbots for limited tasks such as inventing names for characters in my stories.

Figure 8b. Tyhry replicoids
in the laboratory - by Whisk.

The first chapter of a new science fiction story called City on the Edge of Tomorrow appeared in a June 7, 2023 blog post titled "The Tyhry Clones". I had previously introduced the idea of Tyhry using the Reality Simulation System to make multiple copies of herself (see The Hua Nanites, above). For City on the Edge of Tomorrow I depicted events in the days just before the events of The Femtobot Smuggler.

For the image shown in Figure 8b, I asked Whisk to include "half dozen other blond women" in the background. By my count, Whisk included about two dozen copies of Tyhry.

City on the Edge of Tomorrow

In Part 1 of City on the Edge of Tomorrow, Marda and Rylla arrive in Arizona and Rylla is under the influence of Klox23, a potent sex hormone variant of oxypathin which Rylla has recently crafted in her polypeptide research laboratory. With Klox23 in her body, Rylla has has an intense clitoral erection for the past day and the glans of her clitoris has swollen to extraordinary size. This fits right in with Zeta's plans to take Rylla dancing at the "Futurescape" night club. Zeta thinks that Rylla has been working too much and Zeta hopes to find Rylla an exciting new sex partner at the club.

In Part 2 of City on the Edge of Tomorrow, Tyhry hints to Marda about an exciting new result she has achieved in her experimentation with nanites. Manny the bumpha has been training Tyhry as Earth's first nanite programmer. Tyhry has already mastered the use of hair nanites, feeding nanites and anti-gravity nanites that contain negative mass hierions.

Naseh and Wydgren

Tyhry reveals to Marda that Tyhry also can deploy "hacking nanites". Tyhry has gained access to Rylla's laboratory notes and is aware that Rylla is working on an inhibitor of the oxypathin peptidase, which Tyhry refers to as "the secret of human telepathy."

At the Futurescape, Tyhry introduces Marda to Naseh, Tynyo (Ty) and Ty's father, Lahs. Tyhry has used her nanites to steal some Klox23 from Rylla. Tyhry doses Naseh with Klox23 and Naseh is soon under the influence of the potent sex hormone.

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In Part 3 of City on the Edge of Tomorrow, the action shifts to the Ekcolir Reality and a science fiction story teller named Wydgren Förbyndel. In the Ekcolir Reality, Wydgren is a leader of the anti-fru movement, but she suffers from the effects of a terrible microbial infection. Her susceptibility to the infection is related to her large number of Ek'col genes.

In preparation for the coming Final Reality, Grean the Kac'hin must test a set of medical nanites that will allow Wydgren's analogue in the Final Reality to fulfill her important role. Manny the bumpha arrives, disguised as Delpha the Kac'hin and goes to Earth to test the medical nanites.

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The events in Part 4 of City on the Edge of Tomorrow are a 'flash back' to when Tyhry first meets Naseh and Tyhry arranges for their two families to meet at the Futurescape. Naseh moved to Arizona as part of her search for Eddy. One of the reasons for this Decade in Review (DiR) is to identify science fiction stories that I never completed. On June 23rd 2023 I wrote most of Part 5 of City on the Edge of Tomorrow in a never-published blog post called "Syn Time". However, before I could finish City on the Edge of Tomorrow, I got distracted and began thinking about City on the Edge of Tomorrow, I began planing a new science fiction story that would involve a character named Mosy. 

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Plans for continuing City on the Edge of Tomorrow in 2024 were included in a December 2023 blog post called "Edgy". City on the Edge of Tomorrow included the idea that Tyhry and Marda were just a few days away from their vacation inside the Asimov Reality and I was having trouble imagining how the events of City on the Edge of Tomorrow would seamlessly merge into the plot for the story that would become The Femtobot Smuggler.

The Temporal Agents.

 Juggling Story Ideas. A major plot element in City on the Edge of Tomorrow is Rylla's development of the sex hormone Klox23. Right at the start of 2024, I was working on a story fragment that I placed in a never published blog post titled "Rylla RNA". Set in the time when bot Rey and Anthony were living in the home of Eddy and Zeta, "Rylla RNA" depicted Rylla as developing "synaptic RNA" in the hopes of boosting the abilities of telepaths. In that story, an accident with synaptic RNA causes Rylla to loose all of her telepathic powers. Can I find a way to complete City on the Edge of Tomorrow that includes this plot element of synaptic RNA?

Asimov in 2046.

One other never-published blog post from 2024 was "Wydgren Meets Wydgren". I had been planning that as part of City on the Edge of Tomorrow, Tyhry and Marda would go in search of their own analogues inside the Ekcolir Reality.  "Wydgren Meets Wydgren" was based on the idea that the mother of Naseh, Wydgren, would go with Tyhry and Marda into the Ekcolir Reality Simulation and that Wydgren would meet her own analogue in that Reality. Also at the end of 2024 was commentary on "The Lahs Experiment", which included the idea of Tyhry having the ability to use infites that manipulate synaptic RNA, giving Tyhry the ability to implant false memories into the minds of Zeta and Rylla. This technological ability of Tyhry to control minds was a plot device that would allow Zeta and Rylla to be distracted from what they had learned about Lahs and his family, allowing Tyhry's family to move on to a new adventure on the planet Threy.

Time Nexus (image source)

Another distraction from the task of completing City on the Edge of Tomorrow was the arrival of a new science fiction story called "The Asimov-Sagan Time Nexus", set in an alternate timeline for Earth  in which Isaac Asimov is taken into the future to have heart surgery and then returned to the year 1981.

In Part 2 of The Asimov-Sagan Time Nexus, I got quite silly and ended up inserting "meta-commentary" about the story into the text of the story (this was due to my use of a chatbot to help compose the story), but as the plot limps along, the 'new and surgically improved' Asimov becomes involved with Carl Sagan and efforts to send a man to Mars.

Isaac and Carl in the 21st century.

 Alternate Timeline. In Part 3 of The Asimov-Sagan Time Nexus, President Clinton has called Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan to the White House. Clinton has just made the goal of putting astronauts on Mars by 2015 a national priority. Isaac, Janet, Carl Sagan, his wife Anny and Anya Penmewly (the Interventionist doctor from the future who performed Isaac's heart surgery) discuss the future. 

In Part 4 of The Asimov-Sagan Time Nexus, Anya visits a secret Time Service facility that is equipped with advanced technology which will allow Anya to devise a medical treatment that extends the life of Carl Sagan, just long enough for him to become the first man on Mars.

In Part 5 of The Asimov-Sagan Time Nexus, a terminally ill Carl Sagan becomes the first man to live -and die- on Mars.

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 In a blog post dated August 19, 2023 and titled "Tara of Eland" there is Part 1 of a science fiction story called the Mosy Saga. The story begins about 5,000 years ago when a young Earth woman (named Tara) became aware of how the events of Mosy's life could be altered so as to put an end to the Ekcolir Reality.

Tara, a member of the tribe of El, has large numbers of Ek'col genes and she has the ability to obtain information about the future by way of the Sedron Time Stream. In a vision of the future, Tara sees that she must move from her homeland of Eland to the southerly region of Norsun. As a trained Ta, Tara can use her telepathic mind to perceive nanites.

Tara and Potina

Tara has grown up on Earth as part of an Interventionist mission that secretly deploys nanotechnology on Earth. For example, her horse is a femtobot replicoid that alter its physical form by rearranging its nanite components.

Tara lives in a "disposable reality" where nobody makes much of an effort to enforce the Rules of Intervention. Trysta (Ta) is casually mentioned in the Mosy Saga as having long ago told of the importance of Norsun. Trysta long ago provided the people of Eland with workers who are known as the Rep. In biblical style, Tara weds her brother (Zule) and arranges for Zule's lover, Potina to be Zule's second wife.

Tara's vision of the future.
Her daughters
Atarte, Quel and Triq.

In Part 2 of the Mosy Saga, Tara is already aware of many parts of the future, both in Norsun and later, in Egypt. Tara knows that she will eventually know Mosy, but that will be a thousand years in her future.

In Part 3 of the Mosy Saga, when Tara, Potina and Zule arrive at their new home in Norsun, they assume roles in the local society that have already been played by Rep who used the physical form of Tara, Potina and Zule. The Rep are tasked with carefully nurturing the humans such as Tara, Potina and Zule who carry large numbers of Ek'col and Kac'hin gene patterns. Disease has eliminated most of the native population of Norsum and now the descendants of Tara, Potina and Zule will grow in number and re-populate Norsum. Developmental control nanites will allow the people of Norsun to appear to be normal humans.

Tara and Caz in
the Garden of Eland.

Tara meets Caz, a replicoid remnant of the "first Tara", a woman who had lived long ago on Earth and who was subsequently clones to produce Tara. Norsun is a training facility for Tara and Caz explains, "First and foremost, it is important that you learn the mind pattern of Mosy." By means of time travel, a copy of Mosy has been brought to Norsun and so Tara can begin to learn the Mosy mind pattern. Caz explains to Tara that synapex linkages to the time traveling copy of Mosy will allow Tara to fully learn the Mosy mind pattern. 

Programming nanites for Norsun.

Caz has seen the future and tells Tara about her clone who in the future will meet the original Mosy: "With the help of your sophisticated telepathic powers, you will make Mosy fall in love with your clone and he will gladly circumcise himself in order to have you... um, your clone, as his bride. In that way you (and your clone) will be positioned not only for plenty of hot sex with Mosy, but you (and your clone) will be able to alter the course of his life, causing a change in the historical timeline of Earth. In that way, you will play an important role in the great plan for bringing into existence a new and better Reality."

Symyn and Qyp

Caz also explains how Tara's life will be extended by medical nanites, but eventually Tara will be instantiated as a femtobot replicoid in Eternity. 

In Part 4 of the Mosy Saga, the story shifts to the planet Tar'tron in the Galactic Core where Zule, Potina and Tara used the names Qyp, Symyn and Thylon while being prepared for their mission on Earth. Part 4 was placed in a blog post titled "Potina on Tar'tron" and Chapter 4 was called "Recruiting Qyp" as part of an effort to explain why sending another Ek'col to Earth was a necessary part of the Mosy intervention. 

Systolina

 The Mosy Saga is a story from 2023 that I have never completed. Possibly there is a path to completion of he Mosy Saga by way of my 2024 story Vythoth the Chresmoscopist, which features a religious robot on Threy named Nymerya Coryn. In 2024 I developed the tentative idea that there was a link between Mosy and Nymerya Coryn, but I have not yet found a way to solidify that possibility.

Time police (image source).

Right at the end of 2023 I wrote a fun short story called "The Return of Zat". "The Return of Zat" is a kind of sequel story for "The Lost Machine" by John Wyndham was first published in the April 1932 issue of Amazing Stories. "The Return of Zat" begins on Mars, seven million years in our future, when Mars is part of the Holy star system, the sacred origin of galactic civilization. Mars is protected by Time Police and nobody wants to risk disturbing the ancient history of Earth.

However, Earth is now a ball of ice. Banuff and Zat are sent into the past. Do they manage to save Earth from being turned into a snowball Earth? Or does Banuff's mission in the past cause snowball Earth?

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 Time Portal. As mentioned earlier in this Decade in Review (see Part 8), I began a science fiction story called Time Portal in 2021. I finally got around to writing Part 2 of in 2023. In Part 1 of Time Portal (September 2021), professor Twissell and his student Patty Bekom make use of clues from the past to create a functioning time portal that open into the past. A crucial mathematical clue is found by Patty in her grandmother Francesca's diary... written in 1937. 

In order to investigate how much Patty's grandmother knew about the mathematical theory of temporal dimensions, Dr. Twissell passes through the time portal and travels into the past. Patty describes the 11 equations that correctly summarize the 11 spatio-temporal dimensions as, "Francesca's temporal quadraine". 

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 2023. In Chapter 2 of Time Portal, Twissell arrives in 1918 (where he uses the name 'Thompson') and hopes to meet Francesca Maurolico. The only hope Twissell has of returning to the future is the possibility that Francesca understands the "polarity problem" and how to open a time portal to the future. While waiting for Francesca to arrive in Perth, Twissell uses the University library to discover that there had been another Francesca Maurolico who died in 1650, an obscure mathematician known for her book of prophecies. Patty's grandmother arrives in Perth in the year 1922 and becomes Twissell's research student.

Two copies of Francesca (source).

 2024. Chapter 3 of Time Portal appeared in a January 9, 2024 blog post called "Senquon". The senquon is the type of sedron that makes possible travel through time via the time portal, but some humans, like Francesca, can become aware of events in past or future times by functioning as receivers for information that is transmitted by senquons that move through the Sedron Time Stream. Twissell has a vision of 1545 and wonders if Francesca will travel back in time.

Abigail Longfellow in 1815.

In Chapter 4 of Time Portal, Nyrtia reveals herself to Francesca and explains that she is moving Twissell through time as a way to spread important Asterothrope gene patterns though the population of humans on Earth. Nyrtia confirms that Francesca will be sent to the 1500s and Twissell will continue back through time to the 1800s.

In Chapter 5 of Time Portal, having impregnated Francesca, Twissell can now move on to the 1800s. At the dimensional research station, Francesca can telepathically sense the location of the 'time portal' which is a source of senquons. Nyrtia sens Twissell from 1922 to 1815.

Francesca and Mary, 1545

 At the end of the blog post "Dimensional Research Station" it still says: Coming in 2025: Chapter 6 of Time Portal. Maybe there are two more chapters of Time Portal to be written, one showing Twissell and Abigail in 1815 and another showing Francesca in the 1500s where she meets Mary, grand-daughter of Thomas More.

Figure 9a. Flat Earth by Gemini.

In early 2024 I was exploring how to use AI software to make illustrations for my science fiction stories. As discussed in my February 3, 2024 blog post "Comic Hallucination", I had Bard use Imagen 2 software to generate an image depicting: "an alternate universe where planets are flat and life-forms are made of neutronium, two life-forms with large eyes are seen in profile view flying above and below a flat Earth, fractal complex star-field above the flat Earth, a small flat Moon is seen above the flat Earth". 

Figure 9b. Flat Earth by Gemini.

Bard has had a name change to 'Gemini' and today I had Gemini use the current version of Imagen to make the image that is shown above in Figure 9a.

When I complaned, Gemini suggested an alternative text prompt: "An alternate universe where planets are flat discs and life-forms are made of neutronium, two life-forms with large eyes are seen in profile view flying above and below a completely flat, disc-shaped Earth, a fractal complex star-field above the flat Earth, a small, flat, coin-like Moon is seen above the flat Earth. Absolutely no spherical planets or moons." The resulting image is shown in Figure 9b.

Figure 10. Mr. Bard - by Gemini.

In Part 14 of this Decade in Review (DiR), I summarize my efforts from early 2024 to use Large Language Model chatbots as a tool to help write science fiction stories. Today (June 25, 2025) I had a new chat with Gemini about my experiences in 2023 collaborating with AIs on science fiction story writing projects such as the creation of  "Mr. Bard Goes to Washington". 

At the end of that discussion, I asked Gemini to: generate a book cover illustration for the 2023 science fiction story "Mr. Bard Goes to Washington.The Imagen-generated image was slightly wiser than the cropped version that is shown in Figure 10.

Next: Part 14 of this Decade in Review.

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