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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.

Shockmolt - Lord Aeon

4/4/2018

Planet Shockmolt
Culture
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.

Shockmolt - Transcendentals

3/4/2018

Planet Shockmolt
Civil rights
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.

Shockmolt - Ewe Burr killed

3/4/2018

Planet Shockmolt
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.

Drome National Anthem

3/4/2018

Robert Sheckley
"The Lifeboat Mutiny"
Galaxy Science Fiction
April 1955, pp. 62-75

X Minus One
#67, 11 September 1956

Shockmolt - Commodity Whores

2/4/2018

Planet Shockmolt
Commerce
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.

Shockmolt - perverse taxation

2/4/2018

Planet Shockmolt
Economics
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.

Shockmolt - Bipolar disorder

2/4/2018

Planet Shockmolt
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.

Shockmolt - Virgivamps of Slattern

1/4/2018

Planet Shockmolt
Religion
The Virgivamps of Slattern are characterized by
hypermobility and passive aggressive proselytizing.
They weep strategically.
The tears repel nonbelievers and
catalyse molecular mutation among converts.
Virgivamps constantly revise their sacred texts.

Shockmolt - Two-state solution

1/4/2018

Planet Shockmolt
International relations
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".

Shockmolt - democracy

1/4/2018

Planet Shockmolt
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

Shockmolt - immigration control

1/4/2018

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".

The last cock on Earth

30/3/2018

'"King, I'll be their god," Bud is mumbling.
"They'll make statues of me,
my cock a mile high, all over.
His Majesty's sacred balls. They'll worship it.
Buddy Geirr, the last cock on Earth.
Oh man... When the boys hear that they'll really
shit themselves, woo-ee!"
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Alice Sheldon (1915-87)
aka James Tiptree, Jr.
Houston, Houston, Do You Read?
1976
|
Radio adaptation
Sci-fi Radio
February 1990