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The Father Thing

11/4/2018

 
Philip K. Dick, The greatest pain does not come zooming down from a distant planet, but up from the depths of the heart. Of course, both could happen; your wife and child could leave you, and you could be sitting alone in your father's] empty house with nothing to live for, and in addition the Martians could bore through the roof and get you.'
​'The basic premise dominating my stories is that if I ever met an extraterrestrial intelligence (more commonly called a "creature from outer space") I would find I had more to say to it than to my next-door neighbor… The way out of living in the middle of an under-imaginative figment is to make contact, in your own mind, with other civilizations as yet unborn.

[…]

'[W]hen my life was simpler and made sense I could tell the difference between the real world and the world I wrote about… Later, when my personal life became more complicated and full of unfortunate convolutions… I became educated to the fact that the greatest pain does not come zooming down from a distant planet, but up from the depths of the heart. Of course, both could happen; your wife and child could leave you, and you could be sitting alone in your [father's] empty house with nothing to live for, and in addition the Martians could bore through the roof and get you.'

Philip K. Dick, 'Afterthought by the Author', The Best of Philip K. Dick, 1976

Shockmolt - Omnibus 3

10/4/2018

 

Due to exiguous demand, the third - and perhaps final - Shockmolt Omnibus is now available. Extirpate it now. https://t.co/bXLL3rwGFr

— Stuart Burch (@Bevingaren) April 10, 2018

Planet Shockmolt
​Omnibus 3 - ​021-030

021 - Entities. 07.04-2118. Flip J. Cock (2028-82). A flipped-out freak. Prophet without profit. The patron saint of miserable little salaried employees everywhere. Writer on unreality. Derided Shockmolt as a fool's paradise and nothing but the picayune imaginings of "a rag man". Supplemental: "You don't ever listen!" Her voice rose piercingly. "God in heaven, you're doomed, Sturch! You're getting worse. More fanatical every day. Where's it going to lead?" "To Shockmolt", I replied. Flip J. Cock, "I Can't Forget Shit Fuck Stu Partially", 2066.

022 - International Relations. 08.04-2118. The Synthicide has actuated a billion refugees, aliens and displaced entities. The Aeon Union's mainframe is near capacity due to a spike in unaccompanied Synceltons and untethered Somatics. Anti-abiotic populist movements are resurgent.

023 - Legal. 09.04-2118. Lim Bo's Zoetics face power cuts and data rationing after Circuit Judges ruled that the energy needs of Inerts must take precedence. Over half of Lim Bo's population now exist in suspended animation. Campaign group Zoetic Lives Matter says it will appeal.

024 - Health. 09.04-2118. The robotioid epidemic in Fent State is now the principal cause of malfunction and failure. Robotioids act by binding to roboreceptors in the data system. Misuse and addiction lead to tolerance and changes in circuit firing, damaging the bot's processor.

025 - International Relations. 09.04-2118. Shockdate 2076: Inhabitants of the Agathos and Kakos islands vote to unite following a referendum. The Agathokakologics have emerged as renowned negotiators, frequently called in to settle differences and arbitrate in conflict resolution.

026 - Geography. 09.04-2118. Lenocinant is an isolated volcanic field settlement. Its many defiles are filled with Clastics, polygenetic descendants of entities exiled there for heinous crimes. These organics have since been joined by corrupted Synths and other accursed abiotics.

027 - Tech. 09.04-2118. Shockdate 2073. The final operative Tiro-16 bluescreened. These Paleosynths were sentient, although motor skills were prioritised over erudition. Tiroes quarried the floefields of Cryopellucid. An exanimate archetype is preserved in the Syntheum (S73-T16).

028 - Religion. 09.04-2118. Sarcous monks of the Misotheist nebula are despicably devout. They appear doubled. This is, in fact, a single, oxymoronic entity: a schizoid conjoined by hypocrisy. They hypocrify in anticipation of Hypocrisis: an end of days when all shall be Sarcous.

029 - Entities. 09.04-2118. Prodromes are autotrophs that mine the placer deposits of Paludal's alluvial plains. As precogs they are frequently consulted. An ethical code of non-maleficence governs their augury. Attempts at circumvention by Shockmolt's amoral entities are legion.
​
030 - Entities. 10.04-2118. Psychosuomians: pullulating parasite possessing a hive mentality. Professing eusociality and speciously convivial, it leaves unwitting hosts demented and debilitated. Bigoted and rapacious, it targets all Shockmolt's entities, both organic and abiotic.

​Planet Shockmolt
​Omnibus 1 - 001-010
Omnibus 2 - 011-020

Shockmolt - Psychosuomians

10/4/2018

 

Planet Shockmolt. Entities. Psychosuomians: pullulating parasite possessing a hive mentality. Professing eusociality and speciously convivial, it leaves unwitting hosts demented and debilitated. Bigoted and rapacious, it targets all Shockmolt's entities, both organic and abiotic.

— Stuart Burch (@Bevingaren) April 10, 2018

Planet Shockmolt
Entities
Psychosuomians: pullulating parasite possessing a hive mentality.
Professing eusociality and speciously convivial,
it leaves unwitting hosts demented and debilitated.
Bigoted and rapacious,
it targets all Shockmolt's entities,
​both organic and abiotic.

Shockmolt - Prodromes

10/4/2018

 

Planet Shockmolt. Entities. Prodromes are autotrophs that mine the placer deposits of Paludal's alluvial plains. As precogs they are frequently consulted. An ethical code of non-maleficence governs their augury. Attempts at circumvention by Shockmolt's amoral entities are legion.

— Stuart Burch (@Bevingaren) April 10, 2018

​Planet Shockmolt
Entities
Prodromes are autotrophs that mine the
placer deposits of Paludal's alluvial plains.
As precogs they are frequently consulted.
An ethical code of non-maleficence governs their augury.
Attempts at circumvention by Shockmolt's amoral entities are legion.

Shockmolt - Misotheist monks

9/4/2018

 

Planet Shockmolt. Religion. Sarcous monks of the Misotheist nebula are despicably devout. They appear doubled. This is, in fact, a single, oxymoronic entity: a schizoid conjoined by hypocrisy. They hypocrify in anticipation of Hypocrisis: an end of days when all shall be Sarcous.

— Stuart Burch (@Bevingaren) April 9, 2018

Planet Shockmolt
Religion
Sarcous monks of the Misotheist nebula are despicably devout.
They appear doubled.
This is, in fact, a single, oxymoronic entity:
a schizoid conjoined by hypocrisy.
​They hypocrify in anticipation of Hypocrisis:
an end of days when all shall be Sarcous.

Shockmolt - Paleosynth bluescreens

9/4/2018

 

Planet Shockmolt. Tech. Shockdate 2073. The final operative Tiro-16 bluescreened. These Paleosynths were sentient, although motor skills were prioritised over erudition. Tiroes quarried the floefields of Cryopellucid. An exanimate archetype is preserved in the Syntheum (S73-T16).

— Stuart Burch (@Bevingaren) April 9, 2018

Planet Shockmolt
Tech
Shockdate 2073.
The final operative Tiro-16 bluescreened.
These Paleosynths were sentient,
although motor skills were prioritised over erudition.
Tiroes quarried the floefields of Cryopellucid.
An exanimate archetype is
​preserved in the Syntheum (S73-T16).

Shockmolt - Lenocinant

9/4/2018

 

Planet Shockmolt. Geography. Lenocinant is an isolated volcanic field settlement. Its many defiles are filled with Clastics, polygenetic descendants of entities exiled there for heinous crimes. These organics have since been joined by corrupted Synths and other accursed abiotics.

— Stuart Burch (@Bevingaren) April 9, 2018

Planet Shockmolt
Geography
Lenocinant is an isolated volcanic field settlement.
Its many defiles are filled with Clastics,
polygenetic descendants of entities exiled there for heinous crimes.
These organics have since been joined by
​corrupted Synths and other accursed abiotics.

Shockmolt - Agathokakologics

9/4/2018

 

Planet Shockmolt. International relations. Stardate 2076: Inhabitants of the Agathos and Kakos islands vote to unite following a referendum. The Agathokakologics have emerged as renowned negotiators, frequently called in to settle differences and arbitrate in conflict resolution.

— Stuart Burch (@Bevingaren) April 9, 2018

Planet Shockmolt
International relations
Stardate 2076:
Inhabitants of the Agathos and Kakos islands
vote to unite following a referendum.
The Agathokakologics have emerged
​as renowned negotiators,
frequently called in to settle differences
and arbitrate in conflict resolution.

Shockmolt - Robotioid epidemic

9/4/2018

 

Planet Shockmolt. Health. The robotioid epidemic in Fent State is now the principal cause of malfunction and failure. Robotioids act by binding to roboreceptors in the data system. Misuse and addiction lead to tolerance and changes in circuit firing, damaging the bot's processor.

— Stuart Burch (@Bevingaren) April 9, 2018

 Planet Shockmolt
Health
The robotioid epidemic in Fent State is now
the principal cause of malfunction and failure.
Robotioids act by binding to roboreceptors in the data system.
Misuse and addiction lead to tolerance
and changes in circuit firing, damaging the bot's processor.

Shockmolt - Zoetic Lives Matter

9/4/2018

 

Planet Shockmolt. Legal. Lim Bo's Zoetics face power cuts and data rationing after Circuit Judges ruled that the energy needs of Inerts must take precedence. Over half of Lim Bo's population now exist in suspended animation. Campaign group Zoetic Lives Matter says it will appeal.

— Stuart Burch (@Bevingaren) April 9, 2018

Planet Shockmolt
Legal
Lim Bo's Zoetics face power cuts and data rationing
after Circuit Judges ruled that the
energy needs of Inerts must take precedence.
Over half of Lim Bo's population
now exist in suspended animation.
Campaign group Zoetic Lives Matter says it will appeal.

Shockmolt - Synthicide refugees

8/4/2018

 

Planet Shockmolt. International Relations. The Synthicide has actuated a billion refugees, aliens and displaced entities. The Aeon Union's mainframe is near capacity due to a spike in unaccompanied Synceltons and untethered Somatics. Anti-abiotic populist movements are resurgent.

— Stuart Burch (@Bevingaren) April 8, 2018

Planet Shockmolt
International Relations
The Synthicide has actuated a billion refugees,
aliens and displaced entities.
The Aeon Union's mainframe is near capacity
due to a spike in unaccompanied
Synceltons and untethered Somatics.
Anti-abiotic populist movements are resurgent.

Shockmolt - Flip J. Cock

7/4/2018

 

Planet Shockmolt. Entities. Flip J. Cock (2028-82). A flipped-out freak. Prophet without profit. The patron saint of miserable little salaried employees everywhere. Writer on unreality. Derided Shockmolt as a fool's paradise and nothing but the picayune imaginings of "a rag man".

— Stuart Burch (@Bevingaren) April 8, 2018

Planet Shockmolt
Entities
Flip J. Cock (2028-82).
A flipped-out freak.
Prophet without profit.
The patron saint of miserable
little salaried employees everywhere.
Writer on unreality.
Derided Shockmolt as a fool's paradise
​and nothing but the picayune imaginings of "a rag man".

Supplemental
Culture
"You don't ever listen!"
Her voice rose piercingly.
"God in heaven, you're doomed, Sturch!
You're getting worse. More fanatical every day.
Where's it going to lead?"
"To Shockmolt", I replied.

Flip J. Cock
"I Can't Forget Shit Fuck Stu Partially"
2066

Planet Shockmolt. Culture. "You don't ever listen!" Her voice rose piercingly. "God in heaven, you're doomed, Sturch! You're getting worse. More fanatical every day. Where's it going to lead?"
"To Shockmolt", I replied.
Flip J. Cock, "I Can't Forget Shit Fuck Stu Partially", 2166 pic.twitter.com/5r3NRfNWQO

— Stuart Burch (@Bevingaren) April 7, 2018

Shockmolt - Omnibus 2

6/4/2018

 

The second Planet Shockmolt ​Omnibus is unfortunately now available. This currish exercise in macaronics picks up where the other one lost hope. Please delete and unfollow. https://t.co/rYNsgaj1Oq

— Stuart Burch (@Bevingaren) April 6, 2018

Planet Shockmolt
​Omnibus 2 - ​011-020
​

0​11 - Health. 04.04-2118. Medicine. Lethergik Inc has begun trialling Paralipsis among synthicide survivors. The drug harvests traumatic memories "apperceptively forgotten yet subconsciously recalled" (Professor Aletheia). Reverse neural engineering is then used to force a factory reset.

012 - Politics. 04.04-2118. Clade County's House of Hosts election has split the parasite vote. Endos, Ectos, Obligates and Kleptos seek coalition with Mutualists or Symbionts. Extremist Sitoids will miss out, however, having again failed to garner enough votes to enter the Host.

013 - Tech. 05.04-2118. The Somatic Avatars of two hundred billion Networked Virtuals have been shared without the users' consent. "Monitoring Corporeals in this way is wrong", said Murk Sucker-Urge, head of social media giant, Androdium: "We should have kept doing it in secret".

014 - Health. 05.04-2118. Quiescents in Otio City are still reeling from a virulent Vivication outbreak. The districts hit hardest are Faineant and Hebetude, with grisly reports of Moxie, Pep and Vim among normally lethargic deadbeats. Rumours of Insomnia are, however, unfounded.

015 - Fashion. 05.04-2118. Pompidou Peninsula's 88th fashion fair has begun. The Endo range by top designer Viscera is all the rage. But the outside-in style leaves health experts scratching their heads: "Filling a young Pomp's skull with organs is a no-brainer" said Dr Ecto Zoa.

016 - Environment. 05.04-2118. Gamma radiation has reached critical levels in Zealot Filled. This poses a grave risk to the indigenous Swineclad. It is hoped that a meltdown in one of the area's poorly maintained nuclear reactors will be sufficient to meet their ionization needs.

017 - Tourism. 06.04-2118. Listless, the index of enervating tourist attractions, ranks the Azoic Depression as Shockmolt's most visited dead zone. Lowlights include Pabulum plain, Banausic Basin and the Quotidian Sprawl. Azoic's principal lifeforms are Insensates and Dysphorics.

018 - Industry. 06.04-2118. Energy firm Noxiotech ("you die, we fly") has detected fetid deposits of Hellion in the Abaddon Rift. Pollution will be mitigated using Synth Capture, by which harmful emissions are pumped into androids, robots and automata whether they like it or not.

019 - Classifieds. 06.04-2118. Mid-lifespan service droid in need of rewiring seeks similar for no cables relationship. Voltaic but prone to bi-polarity and power outrage. Mainframed in Urb-8 but can transport. Would consider a Somatic if untethered. No organics. Pulse 299792458.
​
020 - Tech. News. Stardate 06.04-2118. Ewe Burr was shocked to learn she died in a hovercar crash: "The death and birth of one's clones must be instantaneous. A nanosec delay is unacceptable". ChainDead is investigating. "The whole firm's mortified" said head, Ray Animator.

Planet Shockmolt
​Omnibus 1 - 001-010
​Omnibus 3 - 021-030

Shockmolt - S.E.W.

6/4/2018

 

S Shockmolt
E Electrosplenic
W Wavetron pic.twitter.com/Ej7d2cOMkP

— Stuart Burch (@Bevingaren) April 6, 2018

Shockmolt Electrosplenic Wavetron

Shockmolt - ChainDead

6/4/2018

 

Planet Shockmolt. News. Stardate 06.04-2118. Ewe Burr was shocked to learn she died in a hovercar crash: "The death and birth of one's clones must be instantaneous. A nanosec delay is unacceptable". ChainDead is investigating. "The whole firm's mortified" said head, Ray Animator.

— Stuart Burch (@Bevingaren) April 6, 2018

Planet Shockmolt
News
Stardate 06.04-2118
Ewe Burr was shocked to learn she died in a hovercar crash:
"The death and birth of one's clones must be instantaneous.
A nanosec delay is unacceptable".
ChainDead is investigating.
"The whole firm's mortified" said head, Ray Animator.

Shockmolt - Droid seeks no cables relationship

6/4/2018

 

Planet Shockmolt. Classifieds. Mid-lifespan service droid in need of rewiring seeks similar for no cables relationship. Voltaic but prone to bi-polarity and power outrage. Mainframed in Urb-8 but can transport. Would consider a Somatic if untethered. No organics. Pulse 299792458.

— Stuart Burch (@Bevingaren) April 6, 2018

Planet Shockmolt
Classifieds
Mid-lifespan service droid in need of rewiring
seeks similar for no cables relationship.
Voltaic but prone to bi-polarity and power outrage.
Mainframed in Urb-8 but can transport.
Would consider a Somatic if untethered.
No organics.
​Pulse 299792458.

Shockmolt - Synth Capture

6/4/2018

 

Planet Shockmolt. Industry. Energy firm Noxiotech ("you die, we fly") has detected fetid deposits of Hellion in the Abaddon Rift. Pollution will be mitigated using Synth Capture, by which harmful emissions are pumped into androids, robots and automata whether they like it or not.

— Stuart Burch (@Bevingaren) April 6, 2018

Planet Shockmolt
Industry
Energy firm Noxiotech ("you die, we fly")
has detected fetid deposits of Hellion in the Abaddon Rift.
Pollution will be mitigated using Synth Capture,
by which harmful emissions are pumped into
​androids, robots and automata whether they like it or not.

Shockmolt - The Azoic Depression

6/4/2018

 

Planet Shockmolt. Tourism. Listless, the index of enervating tourist attractions, ranks the Azoic Depression as Shockmolt's most visited dead zone. Lowlights include Pabulum plain, Banausic Basin and the Quotidian Sprawl. Azoic's principal lifeforms are Insensates and Dysphorics.

— Stuart Burch (@Bevingaren) April 6, 2018

Planet Shockmolt
Tourism
Listless, the index of enervating tourist attractions,
ranks the Azoic Depression as
Shockmolt's most visited dead zone.
Lowlights include Pabulum plain,
Banausic Basin and the Quotidian Sprawl.
Azoic's principal lifeforms are
​Insensates and Dysphorics.

Shockmolt - The Swineclad of Zealot Filled

5/4/2018

 

Planet Shockmolt. Environment. Gamma radiation has reached critical levels in Zealot Filled. This poses a grave risk to the indigenous Swineclad. It is hoped that a meltdown in one of the area's poorly maintained nuclear reactors will be sufficient to meet their ionization needs.

— Stuart Burch (@Bevingaren) April 5, 2018

Planet Shockmolt
Environment
Gamma radiation has reached critical levels in Zealot Filled.
This poses a grave risk to the indigenous Swineclad.
It is hoped that a meltdown in one of the
area's poorly maintained nuclear reactors
​will be sufficient to meet their ionization needs.

Shockmolt - Fashion by Viscera

5/4/2018

 

Planet Shockmolt. Fashion. Pompidou Peninsula's 88th fashion fair has begun. The Endo range by top designer Viscera is all the rage. But the outside-in style leaves health experts scratching their heads: "Filling a young Pomp's skull with organs is a no-brainer" said Dr Ecto Zoa.

— Stuart Burch (@Bevingaren) April 5, 2018

Planet Shockmolt
Fashion
Pompidou Peninsula's 88th fashion fair has begun.
The Endo range by top designer Viscera is all the rage.
But the outside-in style leaves
health experts scratching their heads:
"Filling a young Pomp's skull with organs is a no-brainer"
​said Dr Ecto Zoa.

Shockmolt - Vivication in Otio City

5/4/2018

 

Planet Shockmolt. Health. Quiescents in Otio City are still reeling from a virulent Vivication outbreak. The districts hit hardest are Faineant and Hebetude, with grisly reports of Moxie, Pep and Vim among normally lethargic deadbeats. Rumours of Insomnia are, however, unfounded.

— Stuart Burch (@Bevingaren) April 5, 2018

Planet Shockmolt
Health
Quiescents in Otio City are still reeling
from a virulent Vivication outbreak.
The districts hit hardest are
Faineant and Hebetude,
with grisly reports of Moxie, Pep and Vim
among normally lethargic deadbeats.
Rumours of Insomnia are, however, unfounded.

Shockmolt - Murk Sucker-Urge

5/4/2018

 

Planet Shockmolt. Tech. The Somatic Avatars of two hundred billion Networked Virtuals have been shared without the users' consent. "Monitoring Corporeals in this way is wrong", said Murk Sucker-Urge, head of social media giant, Androdium: "We should have kept doing it in secret".

— Stuart Burch (@Bevingaren) April 5, 2018

Planet Shockmolt
Tech
The Somatic Avatars of two hundred billion
Networked Virtuals have been shared
without the users' consent.
"Monitoring Corporeals in this way is wrong",
said Murk Sucker-Urge,
head of social media giant, Androdium:
"We should have kept doing it in secret".

Shockmolt - House of Hosts

4/4/2018

 

Planet Shockmolt. Politics. Clade County's House of Hosts election has split the parasite vote. Endos, Ectos, Obligates and Kleptos seek coalition with Mutualists or Symbionts. Extremist Sitoids will miss out, however, having again failed to garner enough votes to enter the Host.

— Stuart Burch (@Bevingaren) April 4, 2018

Planet Shockmolt
Politics
Clade County's House of Hosts election
has split the parasite vote.
Endos, Ectos, Obligates and Kleptos
seek coalition with Mutualists or Symbionts.
Extremist Sitoids will miss out,
however, having again failed to
garner enough votes to enter the Host.

Shockmolt - Omnibus 1

4/4/2018

 

The inaugural Planet Shockmolt ​Omnibus is now available. This eagerly awaited amphigory contains the first ten edifying instalments. Delete it while stocks last. https://t.co/FfgtwxMt3s

— Stuart Burch (@Bevingaren) April 4, 2018

​Planet Shockmolt
​Omnibus 1 - ​001-010
​

001 - Immigration. 01.04-2118. A spaceport on planet Shockmolt. Immigration control. In the queue: a saint from Slattern, two sarcous monks from the Misotheist nebula, and a swarm of Psychosuomians. The guard at the gate, wrists thicker than my thighs, turns me away. "Read the sign mate: ​ No Ultracrepidarians".

002 - Politics. 01.04-2118. Democracy. Infinicameral system. Legislatures for psychosycophants of every species, subspecies, parasite, hybrid, synthetic, transtemporal, polyspatial, mutant entity. They debate inanely before agreeing to delegate decision-making to an exascale supercomputer.  Supplemental: "Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us." Fared Kill-Nonvoters, President of the Rooseveltians, Address given at Atom Heir, Iota, Planet Shockmolt, Stardate 08.07-2038.

003 - International relations. 01.04-2118. Stardate 2037. Resolution of the territorial dispute between Serial-1 and Spatial Nine. The former agreed to liquefy and populate the River Jonine whilst the diasporic Spatials synthesized into solids. The so-called "two-state solution".

004 - Religion. 01.04-2118. The Virgivamps of Slattern are characterized by hypermobility and passive aggressive proselytizing. They weep strategically. The tears repel nonbelievers and catalyze molecular mutation among converts. Virgivamps constantly revise their sacred texts.

005 - Environment. 02.04-2118. Geography. Each pole has a temperature of absolute zero. The northern and southern extremities are inhabited by Hagedorns and Plancks respectively. These superheated lifeforms are forever complaining about the chilly weather. Bipolar disorder is a major problem.

006 - Economics. 02.04-2118. The Swiftarians of Jonation practice perverse taxation: "From each according to her poverty, to each according to his greed" (Mr Ax Lark 2075). Offspring of solo entities are harvested and sold to the Volups of Sybar. Child Credits are tax-deductible.

007 - Commerce. 02.04-2118. Depression is rife among the Commodity Whores of Amazan Bay. Subliminal Fulfilment technology ensures acquisition precedes conscious thought. Co-Hoes detox using multiple retail therapies. Nirvana is a shopping cart featuring solely out-of-stock goods.

008 - Tech. News. Stardate 02.04-2118. A sentient hovercar denied being responsible for the crash that killed tech entrepreneur, Ewe Burr. Experts agreed that it was a classic case of organic failure. "It's deadly when drivers awake at the wheel", said a police spokesbeing.

009 - Civil rights. 03.04-2118. A semi-cent ago, landmark legislation officially recognised Transcendentals as "real not rooted; irrational yet polynormative": ShoM Code 3.14159265. Transcendents of the Founding Integers will bake a commemorative pie to enumerate the anniversary.

010 - ​Culture. 04.04-2118. A one-being retrospective devoted to Lord Aeon has opened at the Geigerheim. It features the 3D painter's most famous work, including the enigmatic satellite portrait, "Moon A (lesser)", the gibbous skies of which are said to follow one around the zoom.

​Planet Shockmolt
Omnibus 2 - 011-020
​Omnibus 3 - 021-030

Shockmolt - Paralipsis

4/4/2018

 

Planet Shockmolt. Medicine. Lethergik Inc has begun trialling Paralipsis among synthicide survivors. The drug harvests traumatic memories "apperceptively forgotten yet subconsciously recalled" (Professor Aletheia). Reverse neural engineering is then used to force a factory reset.

— Stuart Burch (@Bevingaren) April 4, 2018

Planet Shockmolt
Medicine
Lethergik Inc has begun trialling
Paralipsis among synthicide survivors.
The drug harvests traumatic memories
"apperceptively forgotten yet
subconsciously recalled"
(Professor Aletheia).
Reverse neural engineering
is then used to force a factory reset.

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    Hal Clement
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    1950
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