Rudy Rucker, Notes for Jim and the Flims Notes For Jim and the Flims Book #32, Novel #19 by Rudy Rucker Notes word count 109,660 Notes last revised on Sept 3, 2010. Started the notes on December 16, 2008. Started the novel on December 23, 2008. Finished the first draft of the novel on February 20, 2010. Did the final revision on March 1, 2011. Contents To Do ............................................................................................................................ 7 Publication Rate .......................................................................................................... 10 Word Count ................................................................................................................. 11 Title ............................................................................................................................. 14 A Transreal Novel? ..................................................................................................... 14 Themes ........................................................................................................................ 15 A New Harmony ................................................................................................. 15 An Alien Wife ..................................................................................................... 15 An Artist’s Life ................................................................................................... 16 Life After Death .................................................................................................. 16 Science Ideas ............................................................................................................... 16 Magic Doors........................................................................................................ 16 Dreams, Memories, Ghosts ................................................................................. 16 Why? ................................................................................................................... 17 New Senses ......................................................................................................... 17 Natural Books ..................................................................................................... 17 Where Are the Flims From? ............................................................................... 17 A UFO and a Cow Liver? ................................................................................... 18 Sheckley Walks Around Corners to An Alternate World ................................... 19 How Many Paths? ............................................................................................... 19 The Population of Flimsy.................................................................................... 20 Breaking the Bank of Computation .................................................................... 20 The Monomyth............................................................................................................ 24 Campbell’s Monomyth ........................................................................................... 24 Overall Arc.......................................................................................................... 24 I: Departure ......................................................................................................... 24 II: Initiation ......................................................................................................... 24 III: Return............................................................................................................ 26 The Monomyth in my Recent Novels ..................................................................... 27 Proposal....................................................................................................................... 28 Proposal Version 1 .................................................................................................. 28 p. 1 Rudy Rucker, Notes for Jim and the Flims Proposal Version 4 .................................................................................................. 28 Outline......................................................................................................................... 29 1. Four Mile Beach ................................................................................................. 29 2. A Sharper Tip ...................................................................................................... 29 3. Val ....................................................................................................................... 30 4: The Portal ............................................................................................................ 30 5: Brain Event ......................................................................................................... 30 6: Weena Wesson .................................................................................................... 31 7: Yuel ..................................................................................................................... 31 8: The Boardwalk .................................................................................................... 31 9: The Whipped Vic Crew ...................................................................................... 32 10: Surf Party .......................................................................................................... 32 11: The Jivas ........................................................................................................... 32 12: The Tunnel ........................................................................................................ 33 13: Meet the Flims .................................................................................................. 34 14: The Garden ....................................................................................................... 34 15: Cruiser Couch ................................................................................................... 35 16: Under the Pit ..................................................................................................... 35 17: Deeper ............................................................................................................... 35 18: The Dark Gulf ................................................................................................... 36 19: Offer Cap .......................................................................................................... 36 20: The Castle ......................................................................................................... 37 21: Weena’s Tale .................................................................................................... 37 22: Atum’s Lotus .................................................................................................... 38 23: Lights Out ......................................................................................................... 38 24: Yuelsville .......................................................................................................... 39 25: Down to Earth ................................................................................................... 40 26: Missing Me ....................................................................................................... 41 27: Pied Piper .......................................................................................................... 41 28: The Goddess ..................................................................................................... 42 29: On the Bluff ...................................................................................................... 43 Independent Story Ideas .............................................................................................. 44 * “Happy Hour” a.k.a. “Bad Ideas” ................................................................... 44 “My Multiverse” ................................................................................................. 44 “The Micrometamporphosis”.............................................................................. 45 “Flying”............................................................................................................... 45 “Packrat” ............................................................................................................. 45 “Starship Launch” ............................................................................................... 45 “The Old Ones of the Fjord” ............................................................................... 46 Unused Passages ......................................................................................................... 46 Jim Led by a Tweety Bird ................................................................................... 46 Jim’s Daughter Jolie ........................................................................................... 47 Hyperhypercube .................................................................................................. 47 Description of the Bas Relief on the Magic Door............................................... 47 Death ................................................................................................................... 47 Fatland Joke .......................................................................................................