Would they be given an ultimatum or allowed to return to sleep? What if they found out they had been revived and put back several times, each time refusing to take on the burden? The moral act of duty and self-sacrifice. Story about the accepting of a duty of care. Humans as a computational burden that can not be allowed. Spillage from the transcendental war between the AI s, being fought in the interstitial gaps of reality. Weird things keep happening-strange structures in the sky, rifts and dislocations. Meanwhile reality is under constant siege. The world now is beautiful and bleak, a depopulated wilderness with just a few thousand waking wardens to tend to the vast sleeper cubes which dot the landscape. They vaguely remember the world as it was. They’re given a series of refresher lectures about what’s happened to the world and why it’s the way it is. At first they don’t remember what has happened. Someone is woken from the sleep because one of the wardens has been killed. Here are some of the notes I worked from: A year or two later, I’d lost the sense that there was a novel’s worth in this material, but it still seemed interesting enough to warrant expansion into a short story. But in this case I’d began serious preparatory work on what would have been the book that came out in place of House of Suns, before deciding (spurred by an email from a reader) that House of Suns was the thing I really wanted to work on next.
I don’t, as a rule, keep huge reams of detailed story ideas lying around.
THIS STORY CAME out of a very vague set of notes for a novel that was never to be.
The doctor has revised the mission files so exhaustively that he started to identify, then assume, the personality of the mission’s sole survivor. Story needs to be retold as first person to give it that immediacy, and so we aren’t pulling the wool over the reader’s eyes. Make it that Yakov’s madness didn’t start until they were very close to the Matryoshka.Īt the end of the story, we find that it isn’t Dimitri who’s escaped, it’s his doctor, who’s gone off the rails so completely that he’s started thinking he was one of the crew. In fact, it seems to be spreading-just being in contact with the survivors of the mission seems to be having an un-hinging effect. All along there are clues to the fact that any one who came into contact with the Machine ends up a little insane. Dimitri knows that something bad is going to happen to him, but he’s resigned to it-almost happy, knowing that he has let Petrova know she was right.
They talk about what she did in the past, how she was rdiculed. You want to see some notes? Here are some notes.
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