Pink Noise - Leonid Korogodski [0]
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Are you into all things digital but tired of hearing that computers are superior to the brain? Do you wish we could become immortal by “uploading” our minds into a digital format—or do you fear it? Then watch it all played out in
PINK NOISE
A POSTHUMAN TALE
One of the best brain doctors of his time, Nathi lost his own brain five centuries ago when he became a posthuman.
He is called upon to save a comatose girl. The damage is extensive, so he decides to map his own mind into her brain in order to replace the badly damaged part.
But something unexpected waits for him within the Girl’s brain. She is a carrier of a Wish Fairy, an enigmatic sentient cyber being whose only purpose is to kill the Wish, a virus used by the ruling cyber Wizard Orders to enslave all posthuman minds—including Nathi’s.
Liberated, Nathi forms a symbiotic union—the Dancer—with the Girl, discovers the true cause of her brain injury, and finds a way to break out of the Castle, their high-tech prison, and into the Martian polar night.
But once outside, the real chase begins.
They must resist the cyber wizards who are trying to remotely regain control of their minds while also sending a force in pursuit. This battle must be fought both in the physical world and that of the mind.
Swiss Cheese Terrain, the South Polar Region, Mars.
Credits: NASA / JPL / University of Arizona.
PINK NOISE
PINK NOISE
A
Leonid
POSTHUMAN
Korogodski
TALE
illustrated by Guddah
SILVERBERRY
PRESS
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed therein are either fictitious or are used fictitiously.
PINK NOISE
Copyright © 2010 Leonid Korogodski.
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form.
Published by Silverberry Press, P. O. Box 492, Sharon, MA 02067, U. S. A.
Edited by Elizabeth Bell Carroll. Illustrated by Guddah.
Quotes:
page 11:
G. U. Pope, W. H. Drew, John Lazarus, and F. W. Ellis, translators. Tirukkural: English Translation and Commentary. W. H. Allen & Co., 1886.
page 71:
M. D. Raghavan, translator. A Ballad of Kerala. The Indian Antiquary, 1932.
page 114:
Ramprasad Sen. A Hymn to Kali. Translated by Sanjukta Gupta, in Encountering Kali: In the Margins, at the Center, in the West, edited by Rachel Fell McDermott and Jeffrey J. Kripal, University of California Press, 2003. Copyright © 2003 Regents of the University of California.
page 141:
Daniel C. Dennett. Consciousness Explained. Back Bay Books, 1991. Copyright © 1991
Daniel C. Dennett.
Images:
Front Flyleaf:
Swiss Cheese Terrain, the South Polar Region, Mars. NASA / JPL/ University of Arizona.
page 6:
Albedo Map of the South Polar Region of Mars. NASA / Mars Global Surveyor.
page 151, Top:
Galaxy M81. NASA / JPL–Caltech / S. Willner, Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
page 151, Below:
Galaxy Simulation. Anthony L. Peratt, Los Alamos National Laboratory. Copyright ©
1986 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
page 153:
Galaxies NGC 1409 and 1410. NASA / William C. Keel, University of Alabama.
page 158:
Derived from Gregory J. Leonard, Kenneth L. Tanaka. Geologic Map of the Hellas Region of Mars. Map I-2694, U. S. Geological Survey, U. S. Department of the Interior, 2001.
End Flyleaf:
Layered Terrain, West Arabia Terra Crater. NASA / JPL / Malin Space Science Systems.
Dust Jacket, Back:
Geysers on Mars. NASA / JPL / University of Arizona.
Publisher’s Cataloging-in-Publication Data
(Provided by Quality Books, Inc.)
Korogodski, Leonid.
Pink noise : a posthuman tale / by Leonid Korogodski ; illustrated by Guddah. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
LCCn 2009914228
ISBN 978–0–9843608–2–6 (hardcover)
ISBN 978–0–9843608–0–2 (Adobe PDF)
[etc.]
1. Human evolution—Fiction. 2. Human beings—Fiction. 3. Cyborgs—Fiction. 4. Immortality—Fiction. 5. Science fiction. I. Title.
PS3611.O744P56 2010
813’.6
QBI10–600022
First Edition: August 2010