Decade in re🆅iew

Figure 1. Image generated by Whisk.

A tradition here at the wikifiction blog is the annual Year In Review blog post (see the 2015 review). Here in this blog post, below, is Part 1 of a Decade in Review (DiR) for the time period June 2015 to May 2025. The main goal of this Decade in Review blog post is to create on outline of my fiction writing projects from the past ten years, with a special emphasis on cataloguing those stories that I never completed.

 AI. As part of this DiR, I'll update some of my old story illustrations using text-to-image software such as Whisk to make new AI-generated illustrations such as the one shown in Figure 1 which was built upon a similar illustration that was included in my 2015 Year in Review blog post.

Figure 2. Science fiction
in the Ekcolir Reality.

 A Gohrlay Circle. In June of 2015, my blog post called "The Gohrlay Circle" concerned the important role of my fictional character Gohrlay in providing humans with a future in which they are allowed to spread from Earth to many habitable exoplanets of our galaxy.

Here in May 2025, my recently completed novel "D*" has a seemingly rather minor role for Gohrlay. However, I imagine that the main character in "D*", Tyhry, is the daughter of Gohrlay.

The image shown in Figure 2 is an imaginary science fiction magazine cover from the Ekcolir Reality. For my stories of the Exode Saga, I like to imagine that the science fiction genre was created in the Ekcolir Reality in order to serve as a means of preparing Earthlings for First Contact with space aliens. The space aliens who visited Earth in the Ekcolir Reality were the fru'wu. A fanciful depiction of a fru'wu is shown in Figure 3, below.

Figure 3. The fru'wu Intervention.

I've always depicted Gohrlay as a Neanderthal who lived in the First Reality while Tyhry is a tryp'At replicoid who was born in the Final Reality. Gohrlay is what I call a "Fixed Point in Time", jargon used by time travelers that means many replicoid copies of Gohrlay were made, assuring that in Earth's Reality Chain, every Reality would have at least one analogue of Gohrlay. This was done because it was the mind pattern of Gohrlay that was used to create the positronic brain of R. Gohrlay, the first positronic robot. The analogue of Gohrlay who is a character in "D*" is called Zeta Gohrlay; she is the long-time companion of Eddy, who is Tyhry's father. Of course, there were many other "versions" of Gohrlay, including Zeta's clone sister αGohrlay.

Figure 4. Anthony and Tyhry.

 Fan Fiction. Many of my science fiction stories are fan fiction. My inclusion of positronic robots in "D*" signals that the story is Isaac Asimov-inspired fan fiction. The positronic robots in "D*" are what I call "probots", replicoid-based artificial life-forms that retain a positronic brain, but those brains are composed of femtobot components. Named probots who appear as characters in "D*" are Anthony, Wendy and Pyrk.

As a tryp'At, Tyhry has four breasts (see Figure 4). One of my regrets about "D*" is that I did not take the time to provide the tryp'At characters with their proper tryp'At anatomical features in the illustrations for the story. Tyhry has pointed tryp'At-style ears, but she often hides them under her nanite-enhanced hair.

Figure 5. Luri (teleporting) and
Grean (in the background).

 Luri of Tamari. In June of 2015, I wrote an origins story about an Etruscan princess named Luri. I depicted Luri as growing up on Earth as a telepath under the guidance of an Interventionist agent named Thrukta. Luri was "ahead of her time", an Earthling who had been crafted as a telepath with the ability to obtain information from the Sedron Domain. Only later, in the time of Tyhry, could such a woman be given the ability to control alien technologies like teleportation systems and nanites. 

However, Luri was able to obtain information telepathically from Thrukta's mind and by way of what I would later call the Sedron Time Stream. Luri had the concept that she could be teleported off of Earth (see Figure 5) while her teleportation duplicate might continue to live on Earth and pass into the human population of Earth her special gene combinations. Luri was given knowledge and artificial memories through the medium of infites (information nanites).

Figure 6. Luri immortalized. Image generated by Whisk.

From the perspective of 2025, I know that in 2015, I was wedded to the idea that Interventionist agents on Earth needed to use human form so as not to be detected by Observers and Overseers.  Thus, Luri was depicted as being a human agent of Interventionists (see Anney's book Luri of Tamari). Later, in my 2025 story "D*", I developed the idea that advanced replicoid technology could be used to make "artificial humans" that could simulate the growth of a human being from embryo to adult. In the 21st century of the Final Reality, where there were no Overseers, Tyhry grew up on Earth as a  replicoid without ever being aware that she was an artificial life-form and with no risk that anyone would notice her artificial nature as a replicoid. 

Figure 7. Stories from the Writers Block.

 The Writers Block. Back in 2015, I was very concerned with details of how the Secret History of Humanity could be told to people living in the Final Reality. I developed the idea of a Writers Block, a "place" in the Hierion Domain where Isaac Asimov (and later Mary Godwin) could work to develop the science fiction genre, often sending story ideas from the Writers Block to authors on Earth.

Within the Ekcolir Reality, Raymond Cummings (see Figure 7) was one of the writers on Earth who was assisted by his replicoid, an artificial copy of his analog from the Asimov Reality. However, in many ways the science fiction literary genre became too successful in the Ekcolir Reality.

Later, in the Final Reality, the archives of the Writers Block could be mined for old stories that had been crafted by residents of the Writers Block. Such stories formed an important part of the vast knowledge that Tyhry had about Deep Time, knowledge that helped guide her adventures (such as those described in "D*") that took place inside the Reality Simulation System.

Figure 8. Was Anney's biological father tryp'At?
(image source)

 Dead Widowers. In 2015, I was often using my other blogs (in addition to the wikifiction blog) as receptacles for my science fiction stories. For example, I had created a blog that I pretended was used to make available on Earth stories about events in Deep Time that might offend the tryp'At Overseers. At the Dead Widowers blog, I posted a story called "The Asimov Reality". I imagined that Angela Fersoni could access information from the Sedron Time Steam and pass that information on to others who could include it in "science fiction" stories, even if the information was factual reporting on events from past Realities.

Exode

Figure 8. Exode in 2025.
Generated by Whisk.

In 2015 I was developing what I thought of as the Exode Trilogy, a series of three novels about Earth's Reality Chain. The Foundations of Eternity was the first part of the Exode Trilogy that I wrote. Following after that was Trysta and Ekcolir, featuring Trysta, the last remaining Asterothrope. The third novel was called Exode and I originally imagined it as a strange love story about Parthney and Kach.

Figure 9. Replicoid assembly.

 Replicoids. During the past ten years of science fiction story writing, what began as a way to control the "butterfly effect" has evolved into a useful way to make artificial copies of human beings.

The image shown in Figure 9 was generated by Whisk. The original image that was used as a reference image for Whisk is in an Aug 15, 2015 blog post called Life By The Numbers. In that blog post, it is described how after the original biological Gohrlay (who was one of the last humans of the First Reality) was destructively scanned, she was later re-built as an artificial life-form: a replicoid. 

Now, here in 2025, I like to imagine that reconstruction was carried out by Manny the bumpha, but in 2015 I had not yet discovered Manny and developed her as a character in the Exode Saga.

Figure 10. Replicoid by WOMBO.

 WOMBO Dream. For the past few weeks, I've been unable to use Mr. Wombo while illustrating my stories. My best guess is that nobody at the company uses that online software, so they did not even notice that it was not working for users like me.

2025 WOMBO update.

One of the reasons I like using WOMBO Dream is that it never cares if I ask it to make images of living people. This has allowed me to adopt famous people for generating the appearance of characters such as Tyhry and Marda. I did not like the way Whisk depicted the nanite stream in Figure 9, so I had Mr. Wombo generate this nanite and the head of the replicoid. For Figure 10, I asked for an image of Kate Jackson, which is how I have been making depictions of Marda for my stories.

Figure 11. Asterothropes by
Whisk and Mr. Wombo.

In an August 2015 blog past called "Tall Tales", I tried to imagine a reason for the strange behavior of Howard Alan Treesong, a character invented by Jack Vance. At that time, I wrote "Howard Treesong's criminal career was the result of... a malfunctioning nanorobotic endosymbiont". In my 2025 story "D*", I included the idea of femtozoans and the idea that Treesong's "multiple personalities" could have been generated by there being multiple femtozoans inside of Treesong. In my imagination, a tall human like Treesong probably has some Asterothrope gene patterns. I requested that Whisk depict the Asterothrope female in Figure 11 as being as tall as the male, but Whisk refused to do that. 

Humanoid alien male by Whisk.

Also, I requested that, "The two humanoid aliens have beautiful faces that conform to human standards of beauty, except for their unusually large eyes." However, Whisk insisted on making the male be ugly (see the image to the left).

I used WOMBO Dream to make the less ugly Asterothrope male that is shown in Figure 11. I'm not sure why Whisk decided to depict these Asterothropes as being barefoot. Also, it looks like the female Asterothrope has no pants. The reference image used for Figure 11 can be seen in this 2015 blog post.

Figure 12. The Sedronite evolutionary tree (source).

 Interventionists. After the positronic robots of Earth drove the pek out of our galaxy, the bumpha ended the Time Travel War, but only by agreeing to give humans the chance to spread from Earth to other planets of the galaxy. The bumpha made use of the Nereids as a source of Interventionist influence for Earth. In 2015, I did not think in terms of the Nereids ever having contact with humans. I depicted Nereid influence on Earth as being through the Grendels and the fru'wu, the Nereids having exited from the Hadron Domain long before the human species came into existence. However, in 2025, in the story "D*", I finally relented and found a way for Tyhry to receive advanced programmable femtobots directly from a Nereid.

Figure 13. Updated Sedronite family tree (source).

 Rules of Intervention. An important blog post from August 2025 was called "Nanites" and it included discussion of the Rules of Intervention.

 Phari vs Nereids. Comparison of Figure 12 to Figure 13 shows that back in 2014, my ideas about Interventionists were rapidly evolving. I was in need of an account of the origins of Earth's Interventionists. Figure 13 shows the beginnings of my thinking about the Phari. R. Gohrlay and R. Nyrtia made use of the Phari and their knowledge of hierions to resist the plans of the pek for converting humans into Prelands who were to quickly ascend from the Hadron Domain and live as Sedronites.

Figure 14. Roben
by Mr. Wombo.

 Roben. In 2015, much of my fiction writing was taking place at my blog that had been specifically created as a platform for the novel "Trysta and Ekolir". For example, I wrote about Roben, the analogue of Gohrlay who existed in the Ekcolir Reality. In that Reality, while Roben lived on Earth, she was not aware of the fact that her body had been shaped by developmental control nanites to disguise her as a modern human, with no obvious Neanderthal features.

That story about Roben mentioned the idea that a replicoid copy of Gohrlay was able to help guide the life of the biological Gohrlay on Earth. In particular, my story about Roben depicted a Reality Change that was implemented in order to prevent Roben from being infected by the AIDS virus. Grean the Kac'hin was able to not only monitor Gohrlay's future in the Ekcolir Reality but also View and plan for events in the next Reality, the Buld Reality. The Ekcolir Reality was named after a man named Ekcolir.

Figure 15. Image mostly generated by Whisk.

Eventually, in the Final Reality, an analogue of Gohrlay, Zeta Gohrlay, would both be allowed to have knowledge of her true identity but also give birth to Tyhry, who I depict as a tryp'At who inherited Neanderthal gene patterns from Zeta.

 Anney's Hypothesis. Anney's Hypothesis is that the Final Reality was planned and implemented so as to provide Gohrlay with a chance to live out a life on Earth and then her telepathic descendants would eventually spread to the stars and populate many additional Earth-like worlds. For the mostly Whisk-generated image in Figure 15, I added the text and manually enhanced the red light. I also got help from Claude for the text prompt.

Figure 16. Magazine covers generated by Whisk.

Figure 17. Space Energy Missions.

I began this "decade in review" blog post in order to identify science fiction story ideas that I have never completed. An example of a story "outline" is in my September 2015 blog post called "I Want To Re-imagine" which has the original image that was used as a reference image for the AI-generated image that is shown in Figure 1, above at the top of this blog page. Imagine a television program that could have been called UFO  2015. Back in 2015 I made an outline of several episodes for that television show, but I never tried to move past that outline.

Figure 18. New York of the future (source).

For the Exode Saga there is a major "climate fiction" component; I imagine that in the Ekcolir Reality there was severe global warming and catastrophic sea level rise. In UFO  2015, fru'wu Interventionists (see Figure 17) bring advanced technology to Earth that can be used to end human dependence on fossil fuels. I imagined episodes of UFO  2015 as being similar to episodes of The X-Files.

Figure 19. Whisk-generated image depicting New York City in the Ekcolir Reality.

Figure 20. Whisk-generated image; help from Claude.

Sometimes Whisk completely fails to understand what I want it to do. In other situations, it seems that Whisk has been explicitly designed to not make the kind of image that I want. When I used the image that is shown in Figure 18, above, as the Whisk "scene" along with the "subject" image that is shown in the upper left corner of Figure 19, Whisk felt certain that there should be a beach in the image that it generated. 

Figure 21. Whisk's (con)fusion.

The instructions I gave to Whisk were: "Replace the flying aircar near the center of the scene image with the aircar from the subject image." Whisk recognized that the giant arm sticking up out of the water was from the Statue of Liberty, but the whole point of the scene is that most of the statue is under water. Whisk usually fails to understand science fiction concepts like "aircar". Figure 20 was generated after I got help from Claude for the text prompt.

For Figure 15, I asked Whisk to show a robot being assembled. When Whisk was asked to make an image with the text prompt including instructions such as, "The robot's body is standing upright, but crucially, the head is separated from the body", Whisk often refused to generate an image. I suspect that Whisk is restricted in its ability to show dismembered people and, apparently, that restriction extends to humanoid robots.

Figure 22. Whisk's Luk'ru.

 Exode. As shown to the right, I was writing chapters for the novel Exode in 2012 ans 2013. Back in those days, I was open about authoring such novels, but later I invented the character named "Eddy" (A.K.A. the Editor) and depicted him as the author. Exode is a good example of a writing project tat I never completed. At one time, I imagined a series of novels that described each Reality in Earth's Reality Chain. In September 2015, in a blog post called "Izhiun's Quest", I wrote a story about Izhiun's early life on a distant exoplanet. Eventually, Izhiun visited Earth and transferred information nanites (infites) into Eddy's body, providing the Editor with useful information about the Secret History of Humanity and how aliens had guided human evolution. 

An account of human evolution is in the September 2015 blog post "Origins of the Sedronites". I imagined that the pek completed their mission of moving some humans into the Sedron Domain about 6,000,000 years ago.

Svahr with a spirit stone (source).

In October 2015, I had a blog post called "Alyeupkigna" in which I included a short X-Files-inspired story about advanced alien nanotechnology. Ten years later, in 2025, I invented the term "femtozoan" to refer to the same concept that was described as "spirit stones", a stone-like object that could hold the endosymbiont of a person. For the Exode Saga, I imagine that humans have advanced alien nanotechnology inside of us: our endosymbionts.

In the story "Alyeupkigna", an Interventionist agent named Svahr must alter the memories of Scully and Mulder in order to prevent them from becoming aware of how in a past Reality, wheeled vehicles were developed in the Americas and in that Reality, advanced technology and an industrial age occurred in the Americas far too early, ultimately leading to a technological catastrophe for Humanity, a catastrophe that could be avoided by means of time travel by Svahr.

A Grendel (left) and an Interventionist agent from
Luk'ru (right) in Dick Girls. Image credits.

In a blog post called "Alien Noir" from October 2015, I quoted Gohrlay as telling Eddy, "Nobody wants to know the truth about the origins of the religions that became dominant in the Final Reality," particularly since hermaphroditic space aliens are so intimately involved. 

 Puritanical Google. Until the much later time (2021) when I finally put this blog behind a "mature content warning", I had to follow Google's absurdly puritanical content rules which basically force PG restrictions on story tellers. The sexuality of the alien hermaphrodites who visited Earth could only be hinted at in 2015.

Related Reading: Decade in Blogging.

Next: Part 2 of my Decade in Review.

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