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The Redemption Inquiry
by Michael Diamond
A Kabbalistic Dystopian/Utopian Sci-Fi novel brought to you in five seasons as read by the author, Michael Diamond, a writer, podcaster and sometime psychiatrist in the DC universe, i.e. your nations’s capital.
Episodes
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Chapter 26: The Crown Descends
Rav Ram Nissan HaKohen Tzedek Gadol, seized by last-minute doubt, improvises an ancient 18-sequence ritual—blended with hacker code—to trigger a planetary resurrection while the AI triad Leviathan, Behemoth, and Ziz enact a dramatic replanetizing. The finale melds Jewish liturgy, mythic…
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Chapter 25: As One
In this episode, a ragtag team of hackers and their elder, the Rav, combine ancient liturgy with resurrected code to open the Nicanor Gate and summon a holographic Holy Temple. They confront blazing columns, a molten ceremonial sea, don priestly vestments, reboot hostile AIs, and enter the Holy…
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Chapter 24: The Return
Join Adam CADMan, your faithful omniscient narrator, as he leads us through a compelling narrative on the Sabbath before Tisha B'Av in the year 6001. This episode reveals a day for deep meditation and learning, where the enigmatic 18th Sequence Protocol is rehearsed in preparation for the...
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"Part V: The Unified Field; Chapter 23: Ten for the Temple"
In the final season of The Redemption Inquiry by Michael Diamond, the HackPack embarks on a kaleidoscopic journey to the Unified Field. As they trace the spiritual guideposts of Rav Krishna Katz, they navigate the treacherous wilderness from Suez Wadi to the Sinai to the Jordan Wadi aboard their...
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Chapter 22: RamKat Speaks
Chapter 22: RamKat Speaks The third incarnation of Ram Nissan Katz, a burnt out hulk of his former self. We get the gist of it from his younger lapsed-hasid buddy, looking back from The Redemption, as to how the dead-end cyber-busker came to enjoy steady employment at said hasid's cyberdelic…
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Chapter 21: Pink's Epiphany
Chapter 21: Pink's Epiphany A snootful of the convoluted mind of the founder of the Hack Pack, Phinheas Han, AKA Pink, the Annunciator of the Moshiach module. Family lore has it that he’s the latest and greatest Avatar of the Prophet Elijah. Pink decrypts the calendrical mystery embedded in...
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Chapter 20: The Severed Boot
Chapter 20: The Severed Boot A little jog backward on the footpath of time, to get a bead on the climate disaster. Early days for the chief archivist of the Hack Pack, Leonardo Pacioli, AKA Nard the Seer. We’re given the lowdown by the redeemed soul of Nard’s loving pater.
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Chapter 19: To Be Discontinued
Chapter 19: To Be Discontinued The Unthinkeable has happened. The governing AI’s figure that Humanity is The Problem. The survivors of The Second Worldwide Ecological Catastrophe hang onto the artificial island, Leviathan. As the AI’s pull the plug, The Moshiach Module snaps into action as per...
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Chapter 18: DJRoNK Spins Out
Chapter 18: DJRoNK Spins Out Ram Nissan Katz’ First Incarnation as a cyber-busking guerilla DJ comes crashing to its piteous end. The Eye of Zyz sees all. Behemoth’s bBots ‘rescue’ the malcontent for reprogramming. Twenty-eight years of cyber-enhanced ‘re-education’, not for the faint of heart.
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Chapter 17: Cathar Rendezvous
Chapter 17: Cathar Rendezvous Take a gander at future heroes Sophia Haskell and Olympia Cordovero as they stand on the verge of graduation from Oxford-en-Pyrénées. The young women have a chance encounter with the renegade cyber-busking guerilla, Ram Nissan Katz, AKA DJRoNK, as told looking back...
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Part IV: Beasts of the Apocalypse
Part the Fourth Beasts of the Apocalypse These are the tales of the motley crew destined to be the Hack Pack, future heroes of The Redemption. One after another, the team gels, cybernauts at humanity’s service. The action is at Emanation’s front stoop, the place where fate is sealed and cosmic...
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Chapter 16: A Night at La Huichette d'Or
Chapter 16: A Night at La Huichette d’Or The tavern, scene of the fracas, strange doings. A gaggle of churchmen and secularists wrangle for the limelight. In the end only Rav Levi ben Gershon and Meister Eckhart keep their wit. The warp and woof of the social fabric permanently frays at the edges.
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Chapter 15: The Golem in the Attic
Chapter 15: The Golem in the Attic In which the young Rav Krishna treats the crowd to a medieval tale from a sacred family tome, “The Diary of Michel Lepécheur.” It is Annus 1309, the primordial inflection, when the cosmic wheel gets turning. Being has swan-dived from Boundlessness, splashed into...
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Chapter 14: The Ideological Singularity
Chapter 14: the Ideological Singularity The scene is Barca Nona, the same Barcelona watering hole. Count Julius Evola, self- styled political philosopher and Dadaist, blabs his Fascist Manifesto before the crowd of riff raff and swells. As the band of Jazz All-Stars breaks for liquid refreshment,...
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Chapter 13: The Pauli Effect
Chapter 13: The Pauli Effect Follow Rav Krishna on the trail of The World Soul back to its earlier inflection, Annus Nineteen-Hundred-Twenty-Five. A quiver of ideologies let loose upon unsuspecting humanity, another singularity from which there could be no return. Humanity and its other spill…
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Chapter 12: Pecuniology
Chapter 12: Pecuniology Allow me to school you, how cash became king in 2009. The next level consequence: the oligarchs’ insatiable appetite for world-dominating AI’s, humanity’s dark twin. The smackdown between the human spirit and its twin takes form, from the little seedlings of creation…
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Chapter 11: Krishna's Singularities
Chapter 11: Krishna's Singularities Here Rav Krishna lays out the paradoxical nature of The Passover and clues in the crowd to the bad news about the newly launched AI’s. It’s also the day his little boychik is born. The new papa’s former neuropathology mentor at Oxford University sings us this...
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Part III: Zeitgeists
Part the Third Zeitgeists Of all the gin joints, it’s the visitors suite of the maternity ward where the Rav unpacks his big spiel, the metaphysical history of the descent of humanity’s soul and its dark twin through the four worlds of Ike Luria's Kabbalah. The crossroads in this wild ride fall…
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Chapter 10: The Birth and Death of History
Chapter 10: The Birth and Death of History The year is 2121, today the launch day for the three totalitarian AI’s and their invisible littermate, Moshiach. Also the birthday of Ram Nissan Katz, only begotten son of Krishna and Sita, the future leader of a failed revolt against the AI’s, and...
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Chapter 9: Adam CADMan vs the Algorithms
Chapter 9: Adam CADMan vs the Algorithms In which Adam CADMan scribes the code for the ‘Messiah Module’ and its cosmic buggy, Apeiron. He stashes the code into the three Beasts of the Apocalypse— Leviathan, Behemoth and Zyz. All three contract with Adam CADMan to code their 4D extravaganza.…
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Chapter 8: Krishna in Kapota
Chapter 8: Krishna in Kapota Rewind the clock a couple of years, cross the pond, another unlikely hero steps up, the sixth generation hasidic savant from Mumbai, Krishna Katz. He makes like a flea and sticks to a professor of neuropathology at Oxford. The hero’s gig is to map the human brain onto...
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Chapter 7: Adam's Prank
Chapter 7: Adam's Prank Our Hero regroups in a cave beneath his parents’ digs in Champaign-Urbana. He scoops up an armful of technology that will deploy at The Redemption. From his remote location, he demos his fire power by inducing a FabLab at the University of Pittsburgh to generate a…
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Chapter 6: Adam is Banishéd
Chapter 6: Adam is Banishéd This is what you might call a bildungsroman. The unlikely hero, Adam Saperstein AKA CADMan, an obligate introvert computer geek, gets himself expelled from The University, but not before he’s cadged access to some inside dope, and humiliates his nemesis, Blago...
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Part II: Winds of Change
Part the Second Winds of Change In which we hike up Ike Luria’s ladder, in the telling of this tale, to the home base of human intention, what old Ike calls The World of Formation, the place where thought pulls on its pants before snapping into action. Two heroes make the scene, the guys who will...
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Chapter 5: The Blessing of the Sun
Chapter 5: The Blessing of the Sun The Reader is introduced to some weird metaphysical shenanigans. The intersection of The Festival of the Passover with the twenty-eight-year cycle of The Blessing of the Sun frames the action for the rest of the story. The author gets the lowdown sitting in on…
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Chapter 4: The Corporate Singularity
Chapter 4: The Corporate Singularity A peek behind the scenes at the legal fiasco, the moral tipping point of Annus 2009. Unchecked corporate power gains a fatal stranglehold over American electoral politics. As told to the author in his chambers by a sitting justice of the United States Supreme...
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Chapter 3: At Black Market
Chapter 3: At Black Market In which the author gives the Reader an eyeful of the dark Underbelly of the Beast as spilled by a former pal deep in the pay of the political goons. The view from The Redemption, in both directions through time’s window.
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Chapter 2: Chasing the Dragon
Chapter 2: Chasing the Dragon The Author’s skinny on the Modern Era by way of his own particulars, the stories of his pater and grandpater. And what’s pain got to do with it. Humanity’s attempt to dodge the pain bullet with dope and technology. It’s slavery down to the ground. The dirty secret?...
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Chapter 1: Dawn of the Aquarians
Part the First Ill Winds In which human beings prove that they are hardly worth the air they breathe. Each of the five parts of the book takes the reader up another rung of a rigged game, Ike Luria’s Great Chain of Being. It all starts at ground level, what you might call the World of Making and...
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Investigator's Preface
"The Redemption Inquiry," a five-part novel by Michael Diamond, is part noir detective part philosophical investigation into the vagueries of existence and the nature of redemption. As the author navigates his imaginative universe, readers are robed in a tapestry of worlds, each representing a...
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A Kabbalistic Dystopian/Utopian Sci-Fi novel brought to you in five seasons as read by the author, Michael Diamond, a writer, podcaster and sometime psychiatrist in the DC universe, i.e. your nations’s capital.
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