Above the Sun

ebook ∣ Strains, #1 · Strains

By Dennis Black

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ebook

Series

Strains

Author

Dennis Black

Publisher

non·standard thought

Release

01 September 2023

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Fiction Science Fiction

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Strain 1: A strain is a sub

  • species. When a group is cut in 2, and the pieces are kept apart for long enough, in reunion each will discover th'other to be a separate strain.

    StarShip Prosperity is returning Terran humanity to outer space for the first time since Collapse 3 centuries ago. The crew of 4, all military, hopes to re

  • establish contact with the descendants of those who were stranded up there, yet some
  • how survived all this time.

    Requires color. Requires color! Requires color!

    This is an experimental hybrid sci

  • fi novel, the 1st in a series of 4. After such a long separation, the characters have so much to discuss that, for simplicity, the text is largely formatted like a play. Don't worry, it's not all talk, yet th'action is often so strange that it makes more sense to let the characters themselves describe it.

    The texts and backgrounds come in different colors, partly in lieu of punctuation, so it's largely unintelligible in black

  • and
  • white. Th'action obeys the laws of Kepler and Newton – other laws, not so much. The languages are not quite what we're used to, nor should they be, so many centuries on. The cultural differences are naturally – as
  • well
  • as un
  • naturally – out of this world.

    The title alludes to th'Old Testament dictum, There is no new thing under the sun.

    Not your normal CGI, the cover comes from a throw

  • away stand
  • alone C program relying on nothing more
  • exotic than stone
  • age UNIX math and i/o – a few hundred lines, half of it just for defining the 1
  • off font. If you look at the hair from different distances, you get totally different effects. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, especially if the beholder doesn't get too close.

    A quixotic frontal assault upon grammar, orthology and standard manuscript format, targeting a vanishingly small audience of those both literate and numerate, and garnering the early accolade of Google banishment before even reaching completion.

    WARNING: Banned 08/07/23 by Google Play Books. If this book doesn't trigger you, then you're just not a woke AI.

    • Format

    ebook

    Series

    Strains

    Author

    Dennis Black

    Publisher

    non·standard thought

    Release

    01 September 2023

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    Subjects

    Fiction Science Fiction
    Above the Sun