... The Strange Reincarnation Of Lucinda Tarne
- Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelley, 1817.
- Battlebots
- Tarot
- Blade Runner ... Voight-Kampff Test
- brainwave game controllers
... Wonderball Apocalypse
Chapter 1: Product Announcement
This chapter evokes the image of an Elon Musk presentation, or of Steve Jobs and Apple
"The classic Orwellian television advertisement for the Mac played on the screen behind him."
Chapter 4: The Feds
"... behind the two black-suited FBI agents was a flatbed truck hauling what was left of his pickup. One agent was a woman, whom he immediately christened Agent Scully, which made the other Agent Mulder. But this was the real thing, no tv rerun,"
"Groundhog day. Wayne opened the door to see two more federal agents. Not Mulder and Scully, more like Bobby Baklava and Fredo Corleone."
In case anyone does not recognize Wayne's mental labeling of the visitors to his farm, Agents Scully and Mulder come from The XFiles, a science fiction drama television series. It ran from Sep 1993 to May 2002 on Fox. Bobby Baklava comes from the Sopranos, and Freedo Corleone from the Godfather movies.
Chapter 17: Believers and Unbelievers
Timothy Francis Leary October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996. I thought he would be especially interested in returning to life as a Wonderball since he once considered having his head cryogenically frozen after he died.
"History had not been kind to him, but fuck history! He was back! He had written and spoken frequently about transhumanist concepts of space migration, intelligence increase, and life extension. Well, here he was with an extended life, not quite the way he had imagined, but alive and with greatly increased intelligence. He was amazed at how quickly he could find the answers to any of his questions in the mind of this new world, in the Web. "