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Title: New Battutafiction: Sekhmet hunts the dying Gnosis
Post by: The E on March 21, 2014, 04:17:46 am

Read it on Beneath Ceaseless Skies! (http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/sekhmet-hunts-the-dying-gnosis-a-computation/)

Title: Re: New Battutafiction: Sekhmet hunts the dying Gnosis
Post by: Phantom Hoover on March 21, 2014, 05:02:06 am

Definitely my favourite of his stories so far.

Title: Re: New Battutafiction: Sekhmet hunts the dying Gnosis
Post by: Luis Dias on March 21, 2014, 06:09:56 am

Impressive, awe inspiring and beautiful. The ancient struggle between liberalism utopia ("He has hidden himself at the end, as far from the tidal flats and the beginning as he could find) and nihilistic darwinism, told by the means of mythical proportions. As it should be. Religious and mythical grammar speaking current philosophical transhumanist questions. A tad presumptuous " for it is a wonder to her to be named so well by something so small.", but efficient. Darwinian evolution is ultimately defeated by what it creates. The story reeks and swims within paradoxes and contradictions.

I was, however, a bit confused by the last parts of it.

Title: Re: New Battutafiction: Sekhmet hunts the dying Gnosis
Post by: StarSlayer on March 21, 2014, 09:06:18 am

Magnificent.

Title: Re: New Battutafiction: Sekhmet hunts the dying Gnosis
Post by: swashmebuckle on March 21, 2014, 03:37:07 pm

Read it yesterday and loved it. But now that we've glimpsed a sci fi story with such mythic, multiverse-spanning scope, it's gonna be hard to go back to the future.

Title: Re: New Battutafiction: Sekhmet hunts the dying Gnosis
Post by: watsisname on March 22, 2014, 01:33:32 am

Love it, Battuta. :)

Title: Re: New Battutafiction: Sekhmet hunts the dying Gnosis
Post by: General Battuta on March 22, 2014, 10:07:45 am

Thanks guys! Glad you enjoyed it, and glad people are engaging with the ~subtext~.

Swash I'm not sure if you're making a point or you wanted to say 'back to the future'

Title: Re: New Battutafiction: Sekhmet hunts the dying Gnosis
Post by: IronBeer on March 22, 2014, 01:52:37 pm

Haven't seen a 'tuttafiction I haven't enjoyed, and I don't think I will. Excellence.

Also, this might just be me, but "Sekhmet hunts..." seems to feel a bit like a Michael Kirkbride piece. Ed: Which I suppose should be a compliment to MK, heheh.

Title: Re: New Battutafiction: Sekhmet hunts the dying Gnosis
Post by: swashmebuckle on March 22, 2014, 02:16:54 pm

Quote from: General Battuta on March 22, 2014, 10:07:45 am

Swash I'm not sure if you're making a point or you wanted to say 'back to the future'

The latter I think. But the story was really big! Sometimes it's worth pointing out when something is really big. Like Marmaduke.

Title: Re: New Battutafiction: Sekhmet hunts the dying Gnosis
Post by: Shivan Hunter on March 22, 2014, 04:25:23 pm

That was amazing. I agree with the Kirkbride comparisons, and I also got a hint of Dresden Codak mixed with BP. Wish I knew enough to speak more knowledgeably about it.

huehuehue (http://i.imgur.com/Lf6btaW.jpg)

Title: Re: New Battutafiction: Sekhmet hunts the dying Gnosis
Post by: An4ximandros on March 22, 2014, 04:38:44 pm

Is this a sneak peak of Bp3?

Title: Re: New Battutafiction: Sekhmet hunts the dying Gnosis
Post by: General Battuta on April 01, 2014, 03:30:02 pm

I am not sure how to answer that.

I've got a new one up, including a pretty nice audio production: http://escapepod.org/2014/03/29/ep441-kumara/

Title: Re: New Battutafiction: Sekhmet hunts the dying Gnosis
Post by: MP-Ryan on April 01, 2014, 03:55:05 pm

Finally got around to reading the OP link.  Well crafted, indeed.  Took me about halfway before I truly caught on.  Very sublime, very provoking.

Title: Re: New Battutafiction: Sekhmet hunts the dying Gnosis
Post by: StarSlayer on April 01, 2014, 04:28:12 pm

Quote from: General Battuta on April 01, 2014, 03:30:02 pm

I am not sure how to answer that.

I've got a new one up, including a pretty nice audio production: http://escapepod.org/2014/03/29/ep441-kumara/

 :yes: :yes:

Title: Re: New Battutafiction: Sekhmet hunts the dying Gnosis
Post by: Luis Dias on April 02, 2014, 08:34:43 am

Loved it too. A touch of Huxley, I miss that.