{"id":539,"date":"2008-08-17T17:33:51","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T01:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=539"},"modified":"2009-04-17T08:15:13","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T16:15:13","slug":"revising-spacetime-donuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/17\/revising-spacetime-donuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Revising “Spacetime Donuts”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been busy doing some minor revisions on the manuscript for Spacetime Donuts <\/em>, getting it ready for a planned E-Reads <\/a>edition in electronic book and the print-on-demand formats this fall. I couldn\u2019t resist cleaning up the manuscript a little. After all, I\u2019m a writer, and revising novels is what I do<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I made a painting for the cover, and my daughter Georgia Rucker <\/a>turned it into a great cover design. <\/p>\n

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Although I do have a few new photos to show you, I haven\u2019t been doing much writing, other than working on the Spacetime Donuts <\/em>revision, so for today I\u2019ll just paste in a more or less random excerpt from the text.<\/p>\n

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Suddenly they were through the electrons\u2019 domain and the bare nucleus blazed ahead of them, perhaps half the size of the scale-ship. It was growing rapidly as they drifted towards it. A deep rumbling filled their tensegrity sphere, and the smell of sulfur and burnt earth filled their nostrils. Vernor was not surprised\u2026if the quantum mechanical probability field could act directly on the memory structure of his brain to produce visual images, there was no reason it couldn\u2019t produce the sounds and smells as well. Intellectually he was hardly surprised\u2026but on the gut level he was as scared as he\u2019d ever been. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The nucleus was a dusky red interspersed with patches of black and threads of glowing white. Its shape, although roughly spherical, was irregular and constantly changing. There was no doubt whatsoever in Vernor\u2019s mind that it knew they were there, and was waiting for them to get close enough for it to make its move. He was repelled at the thought of being sucked into the heart of the fantastically dense entity ahead of them. But surely the Virtual Field would protect them? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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A terrible idea struck Vernor. Although the Virtual Field would prevent the nucleus from physically touching them, the spherical symmetry of the VFG field might produce a lens effect\u2026a lens magnifying and focusing the fantastically powerful nuclear strong forces upon the interior of the scale-ship. Of course the VFG field was acting as a lens, otherwise the intensity of the quantum probability field would have been too weak to affect their brains\u2026\u201cMick!\u201d\u009d Vernor screamed. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to stop!\u201d\u009d He fumbled for the controls with thumb-fingered hands. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cStay cool,\u201d\u009d Mick said reaching over Vernor\u2019s shoulder to turn down the power control. They stopped shrinking, and the nucleus stopped growing. It seemed to be hovering fifty yards from them, a balefully glowing eye as large as the scale-ship. There was some kind of tension growing in the back of Vernor\u2019s mind\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Suddenly Vernor\u2019s hand shot out and turned the VFG field up to full. The impulse to turn the power up had come from his brain\u2026but what had put it there? The nucleus filled his mind as he clung to the controls, fending off Turner\u2019s efforts to turn the field back down. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The laboring VFG cones whined shrilly, and in seconds the scale-ship was a twentieth the size of the huge atomic nucleus looming ahead. The rumbling and the stench grew more intense, and suddenly a chain of sparks shot out from the nucleus and enveloped the scale-ship, inside and out. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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