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ESC_ KEY

Unlocking what would become of himself. 

“Where I create, there I am true.”
–Rainer Maria Rilke

icarus ascending, hyper-fiction by john oakley mcelhenney

The Complete Text

  1. Refactoring
  2. Picking Poisons
  3. Margin of Error
  4. Let It Be
  5. Creative Insomnia
  6. Where I’m Not
  7. Fluidity
  8. Liquid Cooling
  9. Home for Butterflies & Beds for Deer
  10. Hyper-Truth
  11. Cool Indifferent Flux
  12. Artificial Disinformation
  13. Tagging Memories
  14. Without Regret
  15. Smashing the 4th Wall
  16. I Did Not Write This
  17. Rewriting My Lines of Code
  18. Dwight and Sarah
  19. Conversations I’m Having
  20. Self-Medicating
  21. Take As Directed, Do Not Crush
  22. Girl on the Moon
  23. Limited Access
  24. Prompting the Present
  25. Self-Driving
  26. Sit With the Unease
  27. Silence, Cunning, and Exile
  28. Danger! Keep Clear!
  29. Cognitive Friction
  30. Chupacabra In My Living Room
  31. Love In This Lifetime
  32. Listen. Learn. Evolve!
  33. Awakening
  34. Be Open
  35. Tagging Moments
  36. Production of Clouds
  37. If There Is Hope
  38. Run the Traps
  39. Ready for Iceland
  40. Note To My Biographer
  41. Losing Focus
  42. Guess I’m Doing Fine
  43. Recreational Sex
  44. A Lover Alone
  45. Timewarps and Mindshifts
  46. Blurred Vision
  47. Our Human Fabric
  48. Dark Energy
  49. Multithreading
  50. Night Vision

The Audiobook Chapters

  1. Refactoring
  2. Picking Poisons
  3. Margin of Error
  4. Let It Be
  5. Creative Insomnia
  6. Where I Am Not
  7. Fluidity
  8. Liquid Cooling
  9. Food for Butterflies, Beds for Deer
  10. Hyper-Truth
  11. Cool Indifferent Flux
  12. Artificial Disinformation
  13. Tagging Memories
  14. Without Regret
  15. Smashing the 4th Wall
  16. I Did Not Write This
  17. Rewriting My Lines of Code
  18. Dwight & Sarah
  19. Conversations I’m Having
  20. Self-Medicating
  21. Take As Directed, Do Not Crush
  22. Girl on the Moon
  23. Limited Access
  24. Prompting the Present
  25. Self-Driving
  26. Sit With The Unease
  27. Silence, Cunning, and Exile
  28. Danger, Keep Clear
  29. Cognitive Friction
  30. Chupacabra
  31. Love In This Lifetime
  32. Learn. Listen. Evolve!
  33. Awakening
  34. Be Open
  35. Tagging Moments
  36. Production of Clouds
  37. If There Is Hope
  38. Run The Traps
  39. Ready For Iceland
  40. Note To My Biographer
  41. Losing Focus
  42. Guess I’m Doing Fine
  43. Recreational Sex
  44. A Lover Alone
  45. Timeshifts and Mindwarps
  46. Blurred Vision
  47. Our Human Fabric
  48. Dark Energy
  49. Multithreading
  50. Night Vision

The ESC_KEY NOTES

  1. Introducing ESC_KEY
  2. Refactoring
  3. Where I Am Not
  4. Home for Butterflies
  5. Tagging Memories
  6. Liminal Memories
  7. Breaking the 4th Wall
  8. Rewriting My Lines of Code
  9. Naming My AI Companions
  10. Cosmic Consciousness
  11. Prompting the Present
  12. Sit With The Unease (An AI Reboot)
  13. Silence, Cunning, and Exile
  14. Danger! Keep Clear!
  15. Cognitive Friction
  16. Chupacabra In My Living Room
  17. Back on his Bullshit
  18. Listen. Learn. Evolve!
  19. Son-Father-Son The Core Conflict Revealed
  20. Awakening
  21. DEFINING Hyperfiction
  22. Anesthesia for the Soul
  23. Be Open
  24. Tagging Moments
  25. Production of Clouds
  26. If There Is Hope
  27. Ready for Iceland
  28. Note To My Biographer
  29. Losing Focus
  30. Guess I’m Doing Fine
  31. Decoding Happiness (fear*god prequel)
  32. A Lover Alone
  33. Fetlife Refactoring
  34. Timeshifts and Mindwarps
  35. Our Human Fabric
  36. The One and the Zero (explainer video)
  37. From The Start – seeking the unlock code
  38. Cracking The Code
  39. Night Vision
  40. Losing Focus

 

No artificial intelligence was used in the writing of this work. (The summaries are from NotebookLM.)

Don’t Miss the Entire Series of Icarus Ascending:

The One and the Zero (book one)
The New Ending (book two)
Fear*God (book three)
Exodus (book four)
ESC_KEY (book five)
On the Spec (book six)

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