by Rudy Rucker
God is everywhere, and if you ask, God will help you.
Wisdom enough.
Timeline For Frank Shook’s Future History
2030—Piezoplastic.
2040—Lifeboxes.
2050—Limpware Engineering.
2060—Dragonflies.
2070—Sluggie processors. Soft TVs. Smart furniture.
2080—Radiotelepathy. The uvvy.
2090—The S-cube. Recording dreams. Superanimation.
2102—Glork energy currency. Personality encryption.
2110—Commercial genetic engineering. Big Tongue. ShushBees.
2115—Knifeplants. Devilberries. Casas Gordas.
2120—Phido pet construction kit. Pet dinosaurs.
2125—Grown Homes. The Bosch House. Sea Homes from kelp.
2280—Aug dog people alter their bodies.
2290—Archipelago people with disconnected hands. Merpeople.
2350—Programming clones with lifebox files.
2550—Programming ohmie clones with prion infection.
3001—The alla matter transmuter.
3002—People begin using allas to live in asteroids.
3003—3ox copying of objects and of living beings.
3150—Uvvies become internal organs.
3400—People like Ang Ou get hundreds of bodies. Spacebug people.
3666—Teleportation.
4004—People become saucerians, teleporting across the universe.
4050—People free to move in the astral plane.
Contents
Preface
A Transrealist Manifesto
The Secret of Life
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
White Light
Part I
1: In the Graveyard
2: How I Got This Way
3: Number of the Beast
4: Bernco
5: Donald Duck
6: Jesus and the Devil
7: Let the Dead Help You
8: The Speed of Light
Part II
9 Hilbert’s Hotel
10: What is Milk?
11: Epsilon-Zero
12: The Library of Forms
13: The Truth
14: At Alef-one
15: High Tea
Part III
6: Inflatable Love Doll
17: Urban Terror
18: Pig Spit
19: Candy Hearts
20: Talking Cars
21: Absolute Zero
Part IV
22: Halloween
23: Research
24: Teaching
25: The Banach-Tarski Decomposition
26: Bloody Chiclets
27: (It’s Never Really) The End
Saucer Wisdom
Introduction
Ufology
Chapter One: Another Nut?
Frank Shook
A Prayer
Chapter Two: Frank Shook Time
San Lorenzo
Paratime
Driving
Chapter Three: Calling The Saucers
Frank’s House
Cosmic Snow and Video Feedback
The Saucer Demo
Chapter Four: Notes On Communication
The Lifebox
Dragonfly Cameras
Piezoplastic
Radiotelepathy
Chapter Five: Frank And Peggy
Jahva House
Audrey
Peggy Sung
Chapter Six: Notes On Aliens
Cosmic Road Trip
Personality Waves
Life In The Universe
Chapter Seven: Notes on Biotechnology
Chimerical Beasts
Tweaked Plants
Morphed Humans
Chapter Eight: The Mondo Party
I Ask Frank
The Party
Burglarized
Chapter Nine: Missing Time
Looking For Frank
South Dakota
Devil’s Tower
Chapter Ten: Notes On Femtotechnology
Matter Transmutation
3oxing
Chapter Eleven: Notes On Transhumanity
Editing The Body
Copying The Body
Transcending The Body
Chapter Twelve: The End?
Timeline For Frank Shook’s Future History