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Rudy Rucker, Notes for FREEWARE Notes for FREEWARE by Rudy Rucker Copyright (c) Rudy Rucker 2005 These Notes were begun on November 18, 1993. The writing of FREEWARE began January 15, 1994. The writing of FREEWARE ended in February, 1996. This version of the notes was edited and posted on the web on November 22, 2005. Notes word count: 57,599 -------------------------------------- Contents of the Notes for FREEWARE Document Outline ........................................................................................................................................ 1 Timeline. ..................................................................................................................................... 2 Genealogy. .................................................................................................................................. 4 Characters In the Book. .............................................................................................................. 5 Ideas About Possible and Actual Characters ............................................................................ 22 Technology. .............................................................................................................................. 24 Society. ..................................................................................................................................... 46 Slang. ........................................................................................................................................ 52 Locales ...................................................................................................................................... 54 Scenes: Raps, ideas, and what ifs. ............................................................................................ 58 Not-Yet-Used Phrases, Unused Phrases, and Paths Not Taken................................................ 64 Globs......................................................................................................................................... 75 Frags Cut Out............................................................................................................................ 77 Softwet ...................................................................................................................................... 88 Book References ....................................................................................................................... 89 Writing Journal. ........................................................................................................................ 91 -------------------------------------- Outline Viewpoint Date Length 1 Monique October 30, 2053 24 2 Randy September, 2048 - April, 2051 31 3 Tre March, 2049 - October 30, 2053 38 4 Randy March, 2052 - August, 2053 35 5 Terri June, 2043 - October 30, 2053 27 6 Willy March 17, 2031 - July, 2052 33 7 Stahn October 31, 2053 28 8 Darla 2031 - November 6, 2053 26 9 Terri November 6, 2053 32 10 Darla November 6, 2053 17 p. 1 Rudy Rucker, Notes for FREEWARE 11 Stahn November 7, 2053 5 -------------------------------------- Timeline. 1950 Cobb Born, March 22 1971 Cobb and Verena Married 1975 Ilse born 1980 SST paper 1990 Hardware starts 1990 Haf’N’Haf born. 1995 Ralph and 12 others set free in Sea of Tranquillity 1995 Sta-Hi born, Fern Beller born. 2000 Whitey born. 2001 Ralph revolts, Cobb convicted of treason, leaves Verena 2002 Della born 2003 Ilse’s Wedding 2004 Willy born. Darla born. 2010 Social Security stops 2020 Software 2021 Starshine born, Aarbie born. 2022 Humans win Disky back 2030 Wetware 2031 Boppers exterminated. Joke and Yoke born. Spore Day. Bopper technology replaced with moldies and DIMs. March 17, Willy meets Stahn, they go off as dolphins. Willy meets Stahn and Fern, invents the uvvy and moves to the Moon. 2032 Randy Karl Tucker born, August 20. Stahn elected to U.S. Senate 2038 Moldie Citizenship Act passed. Stahn re-elected. 2039 Joke and Yoke’s 8th. Corey making commercial Silly Putters. 2042 Joke and Yoke’s 11th birthday. Darla mad at Corey. 2043 Terri and Ike get DIMboards. 2044 Stahn loses election. 2048 Randy Karl is 16, starts affair with Honey Weaver. Dom dies at Thanksgiving, Ike buys Da Kine. 2049 Ramanujan discovers dream-DIMs. Tre gets job at Apex in March, marries Terri in Nov. 2050 Tre, Jr., born Sept 23. 2051 Randy 18 starts work with Ramanujan in March. 2052 Willy moves into the Nest, July. 2052 Wren born June 26. 2053 July, Tre invents 4D Perplexing Poultry, the Vib Gyor. 2053 Freeware Chapter One begins. p. 2 Rudy Rucker, Notes for FREEWARE Randy’s Timeline Halloween, 2031 Conceived at sex party: Sue and Willy August 13, 2032 Born in Shively September 2048 First has sex with Honey at age 16 June 20, 2050 High-school graduation, break up w. Honey, 17 January 2051 Moves in at Heritage House, 18 March 2051 Moves to India, starts work at ESB, 18. April 2051 First has sex with Parvati, trips on camote, 18. March 2052 Saves Parvati, starts work with Ramanujan, 19 May 2053 Loses Parvati, 20 August 2053 Leaves ESB, Ltd, 21st birthday. October 2053 Kidnaps Monique in Santa Cruz for the loonies. Day by Day Action 2053: Thursday, October 30, the day before Halloween. Monique is abducted by Randy Karl Tucker & Blaster. Terri, Xlotl and Xanana are abducted by Blaster. Tre discovers N-dimensional perplexing poultry, calls Stahn, Stahn takes camote. Friday, October 31, 2053, Halloween. Wendy abandons her flesh body. Wendy and Stahn abducted by Flapper. Wendy and Stahn start trip to Moon. Thursday, November 6. Corey Rhizome’s pets go starry. Darla’s pet goes starry. Blaster goes starry and breaks up the Moon spaceport, then goes into the Nest with Terri aboard. Friday, November 7. Stahn and Wendy land on Moon. p. 3 Rudy Rucker, Notes for FREEWARE -------------------------------------- Genealogy. Cobb ‘50 + Verena Mr. & Mrs. Taze | / \ Ilse ‘75 + Colin Jason + Amy | | Willy ‘04 + Sue Tucker Della ‘02 + Berenice | | Randy Karl ‘32 Manchile ‘31 + Cisco | Bubba ‘31 Stan Mooney + Bea | Sta-Hi ‘95 + Wendy ‘00 (with six years off her age) | Saint (Stan III) ‘31, and Babs (Barbara) ‘33 Whitey Mydol + Darla Quinonez + Emul + Berenice | | Yoke, and twin Joke June, ‘31 Dom Stagnaro + Alice | \ Terri ‘26 Ike ‘28 Tre ‘27 + Terri ‘26 | \ Dolfy. ‘49 Wren ‘52 Berdoo ‘94-‘31 + Rainbow ‘99-‘31 Tempest ‘94 | Starshine ‘21 + Duck Tapin ‘16 Whitey Mydol Aarbie Mydol Everooze + Andrea | \ Xanana + Ouish Monique + Xlotl LIVE PEOPLE’S AGES IN 2053 Stahn 58 Wendy 47 p. 4 Rudy Rucker, Notes for FREEWARE Saint 22 Babs 20 Whitey 53 Darla 49 Yoke & Joke 22 Tre 26 Randy Karl Tucker 31 Terri 27 Ike 25 Willy 49 Starshine 32 Duck 37 Aarbie 32 Corey 49 Willy 49 Della 51 DEAD PEOPLE’S AGES, WERE THEY STILL ALIVE Berdoo 59 Rainbow 54 Cobb 103 (!) ---------------------------------------------------- Characters In the Book. (1) MONIQUE. Imagine a lowlife character whose given name is “Mansonesque Spahn Ranch Straight Satan Ouish Morehouse”. Filthy Phil in SOFTWARE was a Manson type guy, compare Ed Sanders’s book The Family. “My name is Monique, short for Mansonesque. Can you guess the rest of my name?” Like Rumpelstilskin. Moreman is probably an encryption of Mormon, as in Book of. Monique Mormon. Now that’s a name. Monique Mormon. And her nestmate Ouish. Monique and Ouish Mormon, of the Santa Cruz Mormon nest which also includes Charlie Manson and Andy Warhol. Monique and Ouish are female and male humanoid in appearance at work, they are limpware robots, that go door do door in an office building or in a motel, giving blowjobs or eatouts to the people in the offices or in the rooms. They clean the rooms as well. They’re like maids in other words, sort of like Mexicans, except that they also provide sex as a matter of course. Monique or, for that matter Ouish, don’t MIND giving BJs or eatouts any more than I mind starting a car. It means nothing to them. Why would Monique and Ouish do this? To earn enough to be able to buy a clone. To reproduce. And perhaps there is some commercial value to the fluids they collect in their sexual encounters? Sperm would certainly have value as information. The seminal fluids and vaginal p. 5 Rudy Rucker, Notes for FREEWARE lubricants would be rich in pheromones and hormones. Occasionally Ouish or Monique might receive the egg in a woman’s menstrual discharge. The moldies --- the one drawback about them --- is that they have a fairly gross cheesy reek. They smell bad in other words. Like smegma. The people who have sex with moldies are not really the highest class of people. Cheeseballs. “She’s a cheeseball. Her moldie does her every afternoon before she goes home. And Ed’s a cheeseball, too.” Andy Warhol and Charles Manson are two exaflop moldies who live in the same nest as Monique and Ouish. Does Monique give the freeware infection to Blaster or is Blaster already infected? Maybe Monique gives Blaster the catalytic converter that allows a cosmic ray to infect Blaster. Maybe in the last chapter have it from Monique’s point of view, and have bikers take her out to the beach and cut her open and eat up her camote to get high, only the thing is that the camote nodes are minds from space and they are going to live in the people. (2) STAHN. Stahn a.k.a. Sta-Hi is a successful old fart. He calls himself Stan now, how ironic, his father’s name for himself. Or, even better maybe, Stanley. He has two daughters. Yeah. Sta-Hi got married to clone Wendy and they had some kids. Sta-Hi sees them nestled cozily
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