{"id":409,"date":"2007-05-08T09:50:01","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T17:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/08\/postsingular-writing-notes\/"},"modified":"2007-05-08T16:56:22","modified_gmt":"2007-05-09T00:56:22","slug":"postsingular-writing-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/08\/postsingular-writing-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Postsingular Writing Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today posted my writing notes for Postsingular.<\/a> 6 Megs, 300 pages. Enough to chew on for quite some time! <\/p>\n

If you get stoked enough, preorder Postsingular <\/em>from Amazon<\/a>. Preorders help a book’s launch.<\/p>\n

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This was an odd kind of a book, not nearly so easy to write as Mathematicians in Love.<\/em> I started writing Postsingular <\/em>without knowing I was starting a novel, I just had the \u201cChu and the Nants\u201d\u009d story. But that world drew me in. And I became compelled to write it.<\/p>\n

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I started my first notes towards the novel in July, 2005, finished the first draft in November, 2006, revised it up through February, 2007, and now that I\u2019ve put the (slightly edited) writing notes online I\u2019d say I\u2019m about done. <\/p>\n

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And here\u2019s my description of the book that I just wrote up for the Postsingular <\/em> website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Postsingular <\/em>and its sequels represent my return to the cyperpunk style of my classic Ware <\/em>tetralogy. But this is 21st Century cyberpunk; I call it psipunk<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Postsingular <\/em>takes on the question of what will happen after the Singularity\u2014what will happen after computers become as smart as humans and nanotechnology takes on the power of magic? <\/p>\n

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A mad scientist decides it might be a good idea to create a giant virtual reality simulation that is running a copy of Earth and of most of the people in it. Fine, but in order to create this simulation, the mad scientist plans to grind our planet into a zillion supercomputing nanomachines called nants<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Ultrageek Ond Lutter and his autistic son Chu find a way to block the nants\u2014but then Ond can\u2019t resist infesting Earth with a congenial breed of quantum-computing nanomachines called orphids<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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The orphids coat the planet, one or two per square millimeter, and now everyone is on-line all the time, and everything is visible in the orphidnet<\/em>. Artificial life forms emerge in the orphidnet, these are helpful agents called beezies, and they pyramid together into a superhuman planetary mind called the Big Pig<\/em>. People can mentally access the Big Pig and feel like geniuses\u2014with the catch that when they come down they can\u2019t really remember what they saw. Those addicted to this new kind of high are called pigheads<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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The lovers Jayjay and Thuy begin as pigheads, but Thuy manages to kick the habit to work on a vast orphidnet-based narrative called a metanovel<\/em>. Jayjay continues his sessions with the Big Pig in hopes of learning more about science\u2014and this puts a damper on their love affair. But the mad scientist is still machinating to bring back the nants and destroy Earth, and Thuy and Jayjay reunite to save the world.<\/p>\n

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It helps that Jayjay has figured out how to do teleportation via the orphidnet. And that Thuy has made friends with a giant, ethereal man from a parallel world called the Hibrane<\/em>. Jayjay helps Thuy teleport to the Hibrane for help. The Hibraners do have a fix for Earth\u2019s problems, but it\u2019s going to be a bigger change than anyone ever imagined. Earth is on the verge of a postdigital age, more postsingular than anyone ever imagined. <\/p>\n

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Nature will come alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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