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Zuben Chronicles
by Kerry Alan Snyder
A boy from 74,000 years ago dreams into the life of a boy 45 years from now, and vice versa. Together they remember and reassemble the long lost earthsong with the help of a shapeshifting ancestor, countless extinct megafauna and flora, a redeemed raider, the worlds' first synthetic human, a transhuman cyborg assassin, and a hive of superintelligences who—with our consent—govern the earthly realm and humanity itself, all of whom converge from the far reaches of time on a singular discovery: who they really are. kerryourself.substack.com
Episodes
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The Road to Hanakea
The Ottobus swoops up, the driver says aloha, and a tourist has to ask: "Who is Otto, anyway?" Kees, armchair scholar of the Sure Ender, is happy to answer. As the bus winds through the bamboo blanketed hills, he tells the tale of the Forever War: the race to build superintelligent silicon minds,...
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Fiona Floats In
On a red lava-rock beach at Kaihalulu, a young man holding a talking stone is met by two light-sculpted avatars who have come to claim it. Bamya relics, Aureal drones, and a furious bionic woman collide in this chapter of Zuben Chronicles, a new and ancient myth woven with dreamtime and…
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Notty or Yessy
Aloha World! Aloha lovers of love, readers of signs, thinkers of wonders, feelers of life. I am coming to you today to introduce my new iOS and web app (and soon Android), Yessy, and to share with you the philosophy behind it. Get full access to Kerry's Ink at kerryourself.substack.com/subscribe
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Trix Sticks the Landing
A sharp whistle, a wave of heat, and Olle's beach is split open by a trench — out of it steps Trix: a silicarbonian with a shifting, unreadable face, here to buy the stone back for a king's ransom before Fiona ever gets the chance to call. Get full access to Kerry's Ink at...
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Washed Up
Olle washes up on a Maui beach clutching a heavy, impossibly deep crystal shard pulled from the sea — one that seems to be alive, and already calling him toward something bigger than he knows. Get full access to Kerry's Ink at kerryourself.substack.com/subscribe
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Driftwood
As the flood peaks and the giant's eye closes, the Starwoken delivers one last riddle while the water reverses and hurls Lelo out through the mountain's root — he washes up battered on a riverbank, clutching a strange piece of wood, and passes out. Get full access to Kerry's Ink at...
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Flashing the Bios
Dissolved into the giant's void eye, Lelo's awareness unravels into a cosmogonic vision — one hum splitting into hummer, listener, and witness, into rhythm, music, causality, love — until creation explodes into a vast tangle of yarn that yanks him back along a single thread. Get full access to...
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Lelo Climbs a Giant
Buried alive in a flooded cavern inside Mazama, Lelo finds himself climbing the body of a vast crystalline giant — charged by a presence not quite Aina, not quite Ktchalui, up toward an eye that swallows him whole. Get full access to Kerry's Ink at kerryourself.substack.com/subscribe
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Rectangle Vision
Lelo reaches the ridge only to find the mountain has other plans for him. A fissure in black glass, a goat with an unnatural eye, and a voice that's been with him all along — the choice waiting at the crux of Mazama isn't the one he climbed for. Get full access to Kerry's Ink at...
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An Uphill Battle
Lelo slips out before dawn to climb Mazama alone — past Jaco's half-joking warning, through a moonlit meadow, and into a brutal scramble up loose talus that nearly takes him down with it. Get full access to Kerry's Ink at kerryourself.substack.com/subscribe
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Portend and Ascend
Years pass with no answers. Then a dream breaks the silence — Aina radiant atop Mazama, a storm closing in — and Lelo knows it's finally time to climb. Get full access to Kerry's Ink at kerryourself.substack.com/subscribe
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Dreamlink Acquired
A dream cracks open on the night of Aina's funeral — her voice, a mountain, an eye in the dark. Lelo chases it for seasons, slipping away in secret, until a one-eyed goat finally speaks back. Get full access to Kerry's Ink at kerryourself.substack.com/subscribe
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An Ersatz Funeral Pyre
Two winters on, the village formally mourns Aina as dead — bones burned, her name released into the web of all things. Lelo says the words with everyone else. He doesn't believe a single one. Get full access to Kerry's Ink at kerryourself.substack.com/subscribe
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A Vanishing Act
Aina is gone by morning, and no one in the village seems worried enough. Lelo searches alone, trailed by something he can't see, while the elders argue over whether she's lost — or simply left. Get full access to Kerry's Ink at kerryourself.substack.com/subscribe
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Some Parting Words
At the nightly bonfire, Lelo's grandmother Aina speaks of plant-magic and backward songs — then, almost in passing, warns that her path is about to veer somewhere she can't follow him. Get full access to Kerry's Ink at kerryourself.substack.com/subscribe
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Sipping Ktchalui
Age seven, Lelo follows a summoning elk into the high meadow — and watches a mountain drink a rainbow for the first time. Get full access to Kerry's Ink at kerryourself.substack.com/subscribe
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Cosmovagal Theory
Wherein We Shine Reintegrative Light into the Shadows of Our Collective Nervous System Get full access to Kerry's Ink at kerryourself.substack.com/subscribe
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Worldview
To claim a worldview as mine I would need a different worldview. For as far as I can tell, hard lines and sharp edges lie only in the mind and not among the trees, or out at sea, in genetically modified corn rows, in beehives or in blossoms, or even along anally manicured suburban sidewalks and...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A boy from 74,000 years ago dreams into the life of a boy 45 years from now, and vice versa. Together they remember and reassemble the long lost earthsong with the help of a shapeshifting ancestor, countless extinct megafauna and flora, a redeemed raider, the worlds' first synthetic human, a transhuman cyborg assassin, and a hive of superintelligences who—with our consent—govern the earthly realm and humanity itself, all of whom converge from the far reaches of time on a singular discovery: who they really are.
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HOSTED BY
Kerry Alan Snyder
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A boy from 74,000 years ago dreams into the life of a boy 45 years from now, and vice versa. Together they remember and reassemble the long lost earthsong with the help of a shapeshifting ancestor, countless extinct megafauna and flora, a redeemed raider, the worlds' first synthetic human, a...
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