- Paperback: 120 pages
- Publisher: Lulu.com for meika loofs samorzewski (11 Jan 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1847539181
- ISBN-13: 978-1847539182
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.7 cm
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.before Country is a tight collection of seven Science Fiction short stories and code poems. Five were written before Country was named. Two describe the beginnings of settlement. Four code poems recount the ongoing upheaval after initial terraforming. Some say this time of excess was deliberately encouraged, in order to forestall the conservative staidness that infects most isolated post-pioneer societies when they celebrate the pioneer spirit of their forebears, instead of doing it. The last story, The Isle of the Dead, relates a moment of metamorphosis. Rooted in personal agency, the hero Smith seeks a treasure but his outsider perspective rewrites the kernel and creates a new beginning. This directly lay the way for the ecosocial emergence of Country, when Starkey founded the legendary Ripplinglee, the first steadhouse. These tells prequel the three Books of Country (Fall, Born, Home) which best describe the time of the steaders. These will be released some time in the future.
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Seven tells rotten into the bookcore of the wombwell.
Five were written before Country was named.
Two stories describe the beginnings of settlement. Four code poems recount
the ongoing upheaval after initial terraforming. Some say this time of
excess was deliberately encouraged. In order to forestall the conservative
contraction that infects all isolated post-pioneer societies, once they
begin to celebrate the burly spirit of their forebears, instead of doing
it. When this sets in, the stable becomes the staid, and overloaded
functions become decadent self-indulgence rather than metaphors for
creativity, freedom and survival.
The last story The Isle of the Dead relates a moment of metamorphosis.
Rooted in personal agency, the hero Smith seeks a treasure and finds
destiny in its place. His outsider perspective, and his want to dig up the
past, rewrites the kernel and creates a new beginning.
But then, as emergent structures are always more than the sum of
intentions, design and/or conspiracy, the real magic happens.
*it is always more than everything
For there is also released a return of the repressed, such that Smith's
egotistical adventurism then delimits the hero forevermore as an agent of
influence bearing a number of magical keepsakes. Of these talismans, the
presents of several agendas, only one is the hero's alone, but all of them
tug at the heartstrings. For in seeking his fortune, the hero, talented,
gifted and looking for action, is manipulated in turn, through deep time.
The bias to aspire is harnessed to install a co-evolutionary upgrade. The
hero is a useful vector.
The narrative power of The Isle of the Dead, unlike the earlier tales or
dreams, effected the reproduction of key feedback systems. These directly
lay the way for the ecosocial emergence of Country, when Starkey founded
the legendary Ripplinglee, the first steadhouse. This allowed song to move
over the substrate, becoming animal with landscape at levels of homeostatic
consilience, for the first time, and responsibilities were held as multiple
quests by every individual.
The three Books of Country (Fall, Born, Home) which best describe the time
of the steaders and their steadhouse lives, will be released some time in
the future.
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