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Transreal Trilogy: Secret of Life, White Light, Saucer Wisdom

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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

 

 

 


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