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Figure 1. Alys of Aloysyus. Image Generated by Mr. Wombo. |
Science Fiction Story Illustration. 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, for which Mr. Wombo (my 'pet' name for WOMBO Dream) generated an image depicting Alys of Aloysyus, which is the title of the blog post where I placed the first chapter of The Cythyrya Investigation.
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Extant cover. Trapping Treesong. |
At the end of Edison's Endosymbiont Experiments, Rylla had experienced the adventure of exploring past Realities by means of the Reality Simulation System that was accessible to her grandfather, Eddy. Twenty years later (note that 'Tihri' is now called 'Tyhry'), while exploring the Asimov Reality Simulation and visiting the planet Aloysius (Aloysyus), Rylla met Alys and discovered that Alys greatly resembled Rey. Rylla had met Rey the femtobot replicoid during her first use of the Simulator and visiting Earth in the Ekcolir Reality. Eventually, Rylla and Eddy would come to realize that both Nyrtia and Manny often used their special Interventionist agents in multiple Realities of Earth's Reality Chain.
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Knowing that Rey had been taken out of the Ekcolir Reality Simulation system and brought into the Final Reality, Rylla now hopes that it might be possible to find programmable nanites inside the Simulation System that can be used to re-activate the teleportation system at Observer Base.
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Zodiac |
Jutta is a clone of Jyryl Tynzy. She and Rylla use the Simulation System to visit the planet Sogdian in the year 3923 of the Asimov Reality, at the time when Viole Falushe was experimenting with clones and clytykynyn polypeptides for a bizarre form of mind control. Working with Falushe was a man named Retz (an agent for Zodyac) who had some advanced training in nanotechnology.
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the Ivory infites |
Studying the Future. Eventually, I would depict Tyhry (the grownup Tihri) as having an innate ability to regularly make use of information obtained from the Sedron Time Stream. In 2022, I imagined that Ivory Fersoni and her sisters also had access to the Sedron Time Stream. Because of infites that Ivory had passed on to Eddy, he could sometimes access information from the future that Ivory had previously obtained from the Sedron Time Stream. The events in Part 3 of The Cythyrya Investigation center on Eddy's attempt to compose a coherent account of events from the far future of the Final Reality, at a time when telepathic humans are beginning to form a stable society.
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Myller's Planet. |
At the end of Part 3 of The Cythyrya Investigation, Fraunz meets his future wife, Tya. Tya will give birth Rytya, a woman who is able to send information from the future back to Eddy via the Sedron Time Stream.
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Myller's planet ocean cruising. |
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Rylla's and Marda's children (source) |
Part 1 of The Nanites of Love provides information about two probots who are on Earth: Rey and Anthony. By 2040, Rey has long since moved to Australia to help raise the many children of Rylla. Anthony remains in Arizona and becomes Tihri's companion.
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Bonny |
Also inside the Simulation with Eddy and Carrin is Jymzy, who Eddy has previously known as Bonny Lynn and who claims to have originated as a Grendel. Jymzy identifies herself as one of the agents who works for Manny the bumpha and who has been working to guide human evolution on Earth for more than a million years.
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creating Brak |
Jymzy then shifts Eddy to a simulation of the Erre district on Tar'tron where Carrin had been trained for for her mission on Earth. Eddy now realizes that by means of a complex time loop, he contributed genes to the creation of Marda's son Brak, the first fully telepathic human on Earth.
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on Tar'tron |
Part 3 of The Nanites of Love makes reference to the planet Threy, but Eddy is allowed to remember an alternative timeline in which his family vacations on the planet Kyrstynyte. During that vacation, Marda has a romantic interlude with a lover who has large numbers of Asterothrope gene patterns. This "temporary vacation" in the Asmov Reality allows Marda to be impregnated and start her Brak pregnancy.
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Long-range teleportation - image source |
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Figure 2. Blastipositor by Whisk. |
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The Search for Teleportation Technology. Tyhry and Marda are both soon to graduate from college and they are planning a celebratory vacation inside the Reality Simulation System. But first, Manny the bumpha provides Tyhry and Eddy with Reality Simulation coordinates for a visit to Observer Base in the Ekcolir Reality.
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Manny the bumpha |
These copies of Vance and Alice are both femtobot replicoids and Alice delights in altering the shape of her body to please her lovers. Alice has previously received information about Phobos by way of the Sedron Time Stream and she was removed from Earth because of the stories that she wrote about future technologies. Tyhry hopes to find Phari nanites that might be useful in fully activating the teleportation equipment at Observer Base in the Final Reality.
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Everything that they see inside Phobos is exactly as Alice had seen it in her vision of the future, including the teleportation equipment. The teleportation equipment only responds to Alice and Tyhry believes that control nanites for the teleportation equipment are inside Alice's replicoid body.
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Figure 3. Tyhry by Whisk. |
The teleportation control nanites that were obtained from Alice's artificial body are teleported to Observer Base, but they do not allow for full activation of the teleportation equipment and subsequent teleportation of conventional matter.
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Figure 4. Tyhry's hierion confinement experiment. Image Generated by Mr. Wombo. |
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Fiction in 2023. The first new science fiction story of 2023 appeared in a Jan 7, 2023 blog post titled, "Dethevicinelec". The story is called Echo of Cynym, and it begins with a visit by Eddy to Alastor 2672, a "water world" since it has no continents, only scattered volcanic islands. Eddy investigates rumors of what is called call "teleculture", a way of allowing an alien biological organism to maintain a symbiotic relationship with a human and amplify that person's telepathic powers.
The human-alien hybrids of Alastor 2672 were known as the Chyntos and Eddy arrives on the planet hopeful of meeting some Chyntos. However, he is met at the spaceport by a telepathic robot from the planet Triskelion. Bisop the robot has the physical form of a conventional human woman, but Eddy can telepathically sense the mind pattern of a robot.
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Travel poster featuring the Chyntos of Dethevicinelec. |
Bisop the robot takes Eddy to the laboratory of Dr. Elyn Arky. Eddy gets his first look at the native creatures: the aquatic and telepathic Stateorea. Some gene patterns from the Stateorea have been added to the genomes of the Chyntos in an attempt to make human bodies compatible with an alien endosymbiont. However, some of the Chyntos spontaneously revert to a phenotype that is incompatible with such an implanted endosymbiont.
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Figure 1. Echo of Cynym. Image updated by Mr. Wombo. |
Dr. Arky is intrigued by the idea that she is inside a simulation, but she must quickly deal with the telepathic conflict between Eddy and the Stateorea. Towards that goal, Eddy is introduced to Onky, a Chyntos whose body rejects implanted Stateo-symbionts. Onky is not happy on Alastor 2672 and immediately begins to hope that Eddy might take her out of the Simulation and to Earth. Although Onky's body rejects implanted Stateo-symbionts, she temporarily takes one into her thoracic pouch so that she can work with the Stateorea to alter Eddy's telepathic mind.
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Dr. Arky - image source |
Communication with the Phari. In Part 4 of Echo of Cynym, Dr. Arky explains to Eddy that she is a Cynym, a human variant that Nyrtia described as, "telepathic fossil... incompatible with the Phari telepathy network." The Chyntos were crafted as a new human variant that was designed for teleculture. Dr. Arky has tried to craft the Chyntos and their biological telepathic endosymbionts into a tool, a telepathic human culture that can achieve telepathic communication with the ancient Phari.
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an Asterothrope female Image made with EliseComfy10 and KayleeRelax13 by Eclesi4stiK available under: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. |
After a week on Alastor 2672, Eddy departs with Onky and they have a brief encounter with Manny the bumpha. Manny repairs Eddy's neural networks, but informs him that he is now capable of shielding his thoughts from Zeta, despite the strong telepathic linkage they have developed through many years of practice learning their mind patterns.
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Zeta is intrigued by the idea that it might be possible for her to now visit Alastor 2672 and have the Stateorea alter her telepathic brain as had been done for Eddy. However, they learn that they cannot us the Reality Simulation System to return to the mini-society of telepathic Chyntos that Dr. Arky made on Alastor 2672. That version of Alastor 2672 was carefully crafted by Manny, apparently for two purposes: 1) to alter Eddy's telepathic mind and to bring a copy of Onky to the First Reality.
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Image credits: "Snowy landscape" by Aled Jones; "Fi in Mountains" by Henry1850 and Elena17 and yennefer by Eclesi4stiK available under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. |
Tyhry soon discovers that it is now possible for her to access a Simulation of the far past in the First Reality. Manny has left a 'bookmark' in Eddy's Reality Simulation System that will allow Tyhry and Onky to visit the alien Hua. Tyhry hopes that programmable Hua nanites might be used to completely re-activate the teleportation equipment that is inside Observer Base of the Final Reality.
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this image was made using NightElf01 by Eclesi4stiK under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 |
Arriving on the home planet of the alien Hua, Tyhry learns that Manny arranged for them to meet the family of Quyn Vye, one of the leading developers of Hua nanotechnology.
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