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| Earth's Reality Chain |
1. A Search Beyond
2. Foundations of Eternity
3. Trysta and Ekcolir
4. Exode
5. The First Reality
For legal reasons, we'll pretend that A Search Beyond is a fan fiction story in which a team of investigative science fiction writers explore the fictional universe of Jack Vance's Oikumene, the Gaean Reach and the Beyond. After reading the story you will be able to come to your own conclusions about the true nature of the relationship between Vance's "fictional" universe and the story told here.
The story and characters from Jack Vance's Demon Princes series, his Alastor Cluster stories and his other fiction are probably claimed as the intellectual property of Vance's estate or other for-profit corporations. The fictional setting of Vance's Oikumene, the Gaean Reach and the Beyond was borrowed for use here in the spirit of fan fiction, for the enjoyment of science fiction fans and with no intention for profit.
The End of Eternity is a novel about time travel that was created by Isaac Asimov. The story and characters from The End of Eternity and his other fiction (such as his positronic robot stories) are probably claimed as the intellectual property of Asimov's estate or other for-profit corporations. Some of the terminology that was created by Asimov for his stories (such as 'positronic' and 'Reality') was borrowed for use here in the spirit of fan fiction, for the enjoyment of science fiction fans and with no intention for profit.
A Search Beyond
A Search Beyond is the story of how the human species was given an "upgrade" and converted from a disposable species into a life form that could spread from Earth to the stars. This transformation took place during a truce between the positronic robot R. Gohrlay and Grean the Kac'hin.
During that truce, actions in the Time Travel War were restricted to absolutely essential changes of the timeline. In the Asimov Reality, R. Gohrlay and Grean put all of their efforts into finding ways to adapt human brains for use of the Bimanoid Interface.
The Bimanoid Interface allows for communication between biological creatures residing in the Hadronic Domain and artificial life forms (replicoids) who inhabit the parallel universe of the Hierion Domain.
The advanced technology of the Bimanoid Interface can also provide humans with a form of technology-assisted telepathy. In A Search Beyond, the replicoid of Isaac Asimov, Azynov, must investigate the secret of human telepathy. Azynov met his partner, Yōd, on the ancient world Tar'tron, in the galactic core. Now they are inseparable, star-crossed lovers who have been given the opportunity to visit another galaxy.
Arriving in the Andromeda galaxy, Azynov makes the disturbing discovery that that the alien fain have been carefully watching events on Earth. Is fain interest in Earthly affairs part of preparations for some pending invasion? Who are the hidden agents of the fain on Earth?
In A Search Beyond, Azynov and Yōd must return to Earth from Andromeda and search through ancient archives for the secret of human telepathy. Will that search be completed in time to protect Earth against the aliens?
A Search Beyond introduces a young Earthling, Rylla, and her discovery that Earth has long been visited by Inteventionist agents from distant worlds....
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A Search Beyond is an investigative science fiction story. The hidden history of Earth and Humanity must be studied in order to find the clues that will make it possible for the human species to survive and form a thriving space-faring civilization.
A Search Beyond is a recursive science fiction story. It need come as no surprise that some characters in the story are science fiction story writers.
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A Search Beyond is copyright John Schmidt, but the text of the story is licensed for sharing under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA) license.
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