Dataspace 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...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 2.7: 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 ArticleDataspace 12: AR3 to AR4, or [`] = []
Prelude:Dataspace 11: AR2, A Better Array Representation Okay, that didn’t quite work. I tried to implement a Javascript parser for AR2, and it kept feeling like it was much more complicated than it...
View ArticlePlaylist Notes: Novas 6: The Leaves Which Tremble At Dawn Act 2
(previously: Act 1) Susan and Jack, now energy beings, are assisting a parallel Earth in the braided multiverse where things are unfolding very differently because of one critical decision made by...
View ArticlePlaylist Notes: Novas 6: The Leaves Which Tremble At Dawn Act 1
(previously: Novas 3) (previously: Novas 5.5 Act 1) (previously: Novas 3.3) (previously: Novas 5.5 Act 2) Susan and Jack have left Earth, but there are many more worlds out there. Many more Earths,...
View ArticlePlaylist Notes: Novas 0.02: A Case Of Goodbye
(previously: Novas 0.01) It is 1979. Susan and the other children of SKYWATCH, now calling themselves the Novas, have been on the run in the city underground, building a tentative career as punk...
View ArticlePlaylist Notes: Novas 0.01: A Blaze Of Stars
(previously, where it all started, although not chronologically) Novas 0 and rationale (previously in this series) Novas 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 1.1 2.2 3.3 (previously, and just a little in the...
View ArticlePlaylist Notes: Novas 3.3: A Trail Of Desire
(previously: Novas 1) (previously: Novas 1.1) (previously: Novas 2) (previously: Novas 2.2) (previously: Novas 3) (previously: Novas 5.5) Honestly, I was happy with Novas 2.2 being the second of a...
View ArticlePlaylist Notes: Novas 2.2: A Billion Candles Burning
(previously: Novas 1.1) (previously: Novas 2) While Novas 1.1 is a bridge between Novas 1 and Novas 2, it’s very much unresolved and needed a counterpart. The obvious place for that story was the gap...
View ArticlePlaylist Notes: Novas 1.1: A Silence Over Cities
(previously: Novas 0.6) (previously: Novas 1) Novas 0.x was complete. I wasn’t planning on any more in the Eleven series except that I stumbled on the 1984 Spoons film project Listen To The City. And...
View ArticlePlaylist Notes: Novas 0.6: The Day After Tomorrow
(previously: Novas 0.1) (previously: Novas 0.5) Hexaptych. More of an end credits, really. 0.5 leads straight into ‘Tomorrow’, but 0.6 follows up quite a long time afterwards. After the Simulation,...
View ArticlePlaylist Notes: Novas 0.5: The Wonders Of Today
(previously: Novas 0.1) (previously: Novas 0.2) (previously: Novas 0.3) (previously: Novas 0.4) Pentaptych, then. I felt like we still needed an explanation for how Jack and Susan got back together....
View ArticlePlaylist 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...
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