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    Above the Sun: Strains, #1
    The Guardian Dæmons: Strains, #3
    The Ball Hab: Strains, #0
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    Strains Series

    By Dennis Black

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    Strain 3:  To strain is to sift, to filter.  Natural·selection creates some·thing new by straining a small group from a large one.  Likewise unnatural·selection.

    Survival in void is hard enough already without th'added burden of a persistent amorphous undeclared back·ground war of slow attrition.  What's a mother to do?

    Considering all that mankind has adapted to in the past, surely we can also manage such a trivial little challenge as inter·planetary war on top of every·thing else, especially since we already survived the first one, barely.  In fact, the war may well turn out to be th'easy part.

    LanguageEnglish
    Publishernon·standard thought
    Release dateOct 21, 2023
    Above the Sun: Strains, #1
    The Guardian Dæmons: Strains, #3
    The Ball Hab: Strains, #0

    Titles in the series (4)

    • 0

      The Ball Hab: Strains, #0
      The Ball Hab: Strains, #0

      The Ball Hab: Strains, #0

      Dennis Black
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      Requires color.  Requires color!  Requires color!   A strain is a section of music.  No sound travels thru void.  Every sound within void contributes to strains of soothing defiance – every sound and every soul.  Each silence is an alarm.   Where did the cælestials come from?  Good question, but they themselves really don't care.  Focused on the future, they find the past to be . . . passé.  You're hardly the 1st to ask that question.  This is the story of those who were, and of th'answers that they received; the story of LaboratoryShip AltaScotia; the prequel to Above the Sun.  It begins when Earth turns into Hell, and then Hell freezes over.   Q:  Since we're slowly becoming alien, how do we know when we're not human anymore?   A:  When humanity has gone extinct, and we have not.

      Requires color.  Requires color!  Requires color!   A strain is a section of music.  No sound travels thru void.  Every sound within void contributes to strains of soothing defiance – every sound and every soul.  Each silence is an alarm.   Where did the cælestials come from?  Good question, but they themselves really don't care.  Focused on the future, they find the past to be . . . passé.  You're hardly the 1st to ask that question.  This is the story of those who were, and of th'answers that they received; the story of LaboratoryShip AltaScotia; the prequel to Above the Sun.  It begins when Earth turns into Hell, and then Hell freezes over.   Q:  Since we're slowly becoming alien, how do we know when we're not human anymore?   A:  When humanity has gone extinct, and we have not.

    • 1

      Above the Sun: Strains, #1
      Above the Sun: Strains, #1

      Above the Sun: Strains, #1

      Dennis Black
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      Banned 08/07/23 by Google Play Books.   Requires color.  Requires color!  Requires color!   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.   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.

      Banned 08/07/23 by Google Play Books.   Requires color.  Requires color!  Requires color!   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.   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.

    • 3

      The Guardian Dæmons: Strains, #3
      The Guardian Dæmons: Strains, #3

      The Guardian Dæmons: Strains, #3

      Dennis Black
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      Requires color.  Requires color!  Requires color! Strain 3:  To strain is to sift, to filter.  Natural·selection creates some·thing new by straining a small group from a large one.  Likewise unnatural·selection. Survival in void is hard enough already without th'added burden of a persistent amorphous undeclared back·ground war of slow attrition.  What's a mother to do? Considering all that mankind has adapted to in the past, surely we can also manage such a trivial little challenge as inter·planetary war on top of every·thing else, especially since we already survived the first one, barely.  In fact, the war may well turn out to be th'easy part.

      Requires color.  Requires color!  Requires color! Strain 3:  To strain is to sift, to filter.  Natural·selection creates some·thing new by straining a small group from a large one.  Likewise unnatural·selection. Survival in void is hard enough already without th'added burden of a persistent amorphous undeclared back·ground war of slow attrition.  What's a mother to do? Considering all that mankind has adapted to in the past, surely we can also manage such a trivial little challenge as inter·planetary war on top of every·thing else, especially since we already survived the first one, barely.  In fact, the war may well turn out to be th'easy part.

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