Rudy Rucker, Notes for Million Mile Road Trip, December 5, 2016. Notes for Million Mile Road Trip Rudy Rucker Copyright © Rudy Rucker 2016 Previous book was Journals 1990-2014. Million Mile Road Trip is book #39 and novel #22. Started these notes on April 4, 2014. Started writing the actual novel on January 5, 2015. Finished the first draft on June 12, 2016, at 116,500 words. Finished the second draft on August 25, 2016, 111,100 words. Notes word count 134,454 This version of the Notes was revised for publication on December 5, 2016. Contents Working Materials .............................................................................................................. 7 To Do .............................................................................................................................. 7 Optional To Do ......................................................................................................... 11 Pitch .............................................................................................................................. 11 Outline .......................................................................................................................... 11 Size, Mode, Format ....................................................................................................... 16 Tracking POVs and Pages per Chapter ..................................................................... 16 Progress Log, with Completion Projections ............................................................. 17 Manuscript Text Format ........................................................................................... 18 POV and Tense ............................................................................................................. 18 Characters ..................................................................................................................... 20 Zoe Snapp ................................................................................................................. 20 Tina Wacker .............................................................................................................. 20 Villy Antwerpen ....................................................................................................... 21 Scud........................................................................................................................... 21 Yampa ....................................................................................................................... 21 Pinchley .................................................................................................................... 21 The Novel’s Time Line ................................................................................................. 21 Voices ........................................................................................................................... 22 Language ....................................................................................................................... 23 Early Plans ........................................................................................................................ 23 Which Novel? ............................................................................................................... 23 Frek II: Loyal Ida ...................................................................................................... 23 p. 1 Rudy Rucker, Notes for Million Mile Road Trip, December 5, 2016. Literary Novel ........................................................................................................... 23 YA: People From the Fourth Dimension .................................................................. 23 Million Mile Road Trip ............................................................................................. 23 Titles ............................................................................................................................. 24 Cryptomnesia Log ......................................................................................................... 25 The Monomyth .............................................................................................................. 26 Early Plot Ideas ............................................................................................................. 28 Teams ........................................................................................................................ 28 Motives ..................................................................................................................... 29 Skills ......................................................................................................................... 30 Problems ................................................................................................................... 30 Science Ideas ................................................................................................................. 31 Sizes and Speeds ....................................................................................................... 31 Ultramatter ................................................................................................................ 32 Wacker Worlds ......................................................................................................... 32 How a Planet Unfurls, First Try ................................................................................ 34 Wars Between Wacker Worlds ................................................................................. 35 Ringworld, “Missile Gap,” Long Earth. ................................................................... 35 Wacker World Thickness. Flatland? ......................................................................... 36 The Suns.................................................................................................................... 37 Ultra Weather and Getting Lost ................................................................................ 40 The Teep Hopper and Reverse Causation ................................................................. 40 The Ghanaian Rattle ................................................................................................. 40 The Atomic Planets of a Wacker World ................................................................... 40 How Does the Wacker Sizer Enlarge Things? .......................................................... 41 Scary Driving ............................................................................................................ 41 Spiritualism and Hyperspace Beings ........................................................................ 41 Aliens ........................................................................................................................ 42 Possible Scenes ............................................................................................................. 42 The Raven’s Heart .................................................................................................... 42 Unused Outline for Ending ........................................................................................... 43 Unused Passages ............................................................................................................... 44 Extra Teep Heads for Szep ....................................................................................... 44 Goob-goob in Unspace ............................................................................................. 45 The Freeth Mission ................................................................................................... 45 Teep Eyes .................................................................................................................. 45 Yount Protocol .......................................................................................................... 45 Is It A Videogame? ................................................................................................... 45 Trubans and Rubtans ................................................................................................ 46 Pinchley-Yampa Jive ................................................................................................ 46 Stars .......................................................................................................................... 47 Scud Had Sex With Nunu ......................................................................................... 47 Villy Loses It ............................................................................................................ 47 Condoms ................................................................................................................... 48 Basin-Variable Gravity ............................................................................................. 48 Height-Variable Gravity ........................................................................................... 48 p. 2 Rudy Rucker, Notes for Million Mile Road Trip, December 5, 2016. Scud’s Theory of How to Fly with Saucer Pearl ...................................................... 48 Zoe’s “Holophonor” ................................................................................................. 48 Jump Cut ................................................................................................................... 49 Goob-goob as a Homeless Woman