Playlist Notes: Novas Chronology
(previously: Mixtape of the Found Decade) Novas is a cyberpunk rock opera built entirely out of mostly 1980s music (primarily New Wave but including punk, disco, progressive rock, New Age, folk, and...
View ArticlePlaylist Notes: Novas 2.7: In Tapes We Leave Behind
(previously: Novas 2.2) The music wasn’t quite done yet. I found a place for a final trilogy in the space between Novas 2 and 3, fleshing out the “cyberspace boss battle” that we see glimpses of in 3...
View ArticlePlaylist Notes: Novas 2.8: The Door Is Open Wide
(previously: Novas 2.7) (previously: Novas 5.1) Part two. Look, the door is open, step into the space provided there… Novas 2.8: The Door Is Open Wide Let’s get away you say, find a better place....
View ArticlePlaylist Notes: Novas 2.9: So Sudden And So Ageless
(previously: Novas 2.7) (previously: Novas 2.8) On the Corporate Satellite, Susan has escaped once more from the Simulation. Now she just has to deal with the reality of SYSTEM… and find Jack. Part...
View ArticleDataspace 13: Quotes and Whitespace
Prelude: Dataspace 12: AR3 to AR4, or [`] = [] I have a prototype parser for AR4, but it’s time to rewrite it. But first, a couple of notes about the syntax that have become clearer to me, I think....
View ArticlePlaylist Notes: Novas 3.4: A Million Grains Of Sand
(previously in Program Twelve: Novas 2.9) (previously in story time: Novas 5.5 Act 1) (previously in story time: Novas 3.3) It is 1987. Jack made it back to Earth. And now he knows Susan -whatever she...
View ArticlePlaylist Notes: Novas 3.9: He Bring In The Morning
(previously in Program Twelve: Novas 3.4) (previously in story time: Novas 5.5 Act 2) It is 1989. In the last days of the Final Concert, Jack and Susan have reunited… almost. There’s one last thing...
View ArticlePlaylist Notes: Novas 6.6: To Spend The Night In Zion
(previously in Program Twelve: Novas 3.9) (previously in story time: Novas 0.01, 0.02) (previously in story time: Novas 6 Act 1) It is 1999, another 1999. A world facing now disaster because Susan’s...
View ArticlePlaylist Notes: Novas 6.7: A New Home In The Sun
(previously in Program Twelve: Novas 3.9) (previously in story time: Novas 6 Act 1) (previously in Program Twelve: Novas 6.6) It is the year 2000. Nuclear war was cancelled, the Company has been...
View ArticleDataspace 14: What Question Should I Have Asked You Instead Of This One?
I don’t want to say that my Dataspace project is on hold, but I have hit a conceptual wall, a very familiar one that I’ve been hitting for a long time. I’m reasonably happy with Term-Expressions as as...
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