{"id":218,"date":"2025-06-10T06:46:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T06:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caliban.co.za\/?page_id=218"},"modified":"2025-11-15T12:47:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T12:47:36","slug":"sol-senate-cycle-diaspora-book-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/caliban.co.za\/index.php\/hello-world\/bookstore-authors\/bookstore\/the-sol-senate-cycle-diaspora\/sol-senate-cycle-diaspora-book-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sol Senate Cycle Diaspora &#8211; Book 2 &#8211; Ferryman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-accent-2-background-color has-background\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-2bafd31c wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:40%\">\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-container-content-0733e5d0\">Overview<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:60%\">\n<p class=\"has-heading-font-family has-small-font-size\" style=\"line-height:1.2\"><strong>Book 2 &#8211; Ferryman:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-heading-font-family has-medium-font-size\" style=\"line-height:1.2\">Digital Twins are big business. It is 2450AD and the Sol Senate desperately needs something that is in critically short supply to sustain itself and its technologies: actual human beings. Digital Twins are supposed to be exact copies of human minds, but are they really? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-heading-font-family has-medium-font-size\" style=\"line-height:1.2\">Xe! is a Ferryman collecting and dispatching digital packages in the Light-scape from the outpost at Sedna. This is its story.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-heading-font-family has-medium-font-size\" style=\"line-height:1.2\">Caught up in affairs way above its specification, Xe! must dredge deep into its digital banks to recall what it was like to be human. In order to unravel what appears to be a sinister alliance between the Sol Senate human elite and an Alien Species, Xe! must go where no Digital Twin has ever gone before. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-heading-font-family has-medium-font-size\" style=\"line-height:1.2\">Xe! has a unique class of mind and is undaunted by challenges, because Xe! is a Ferryman!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-heading-font-family has-medium-font-size\" style=\"line-height:1.2\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/caliban.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/coversSBB_coverFM21-final-683x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-58\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caliban.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/coversSBB_coverFM21-final-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/caliban.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/coversSBB_coverFM21-final-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/caliban.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/coversSBB_coverFM21-final-768x1152.png 768w, https:\/\/caliban.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/coversSBB_coverFM21-final-1024x1536.png 1024w, https:\/\/caliban.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/coversSBB_coverFM21-final-1365x2048.png 1365w, https:\/\/caliban.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/coversSBB_coverFM21-final.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 85vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-base-2-background-color has-background\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-409b3081 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div style=\"height:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-heading-font-family has-medium-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400;line-height:1.2\"><strong>What if&#8230;?<\/strong> Human intelligence was persistent? How different is any person from whom they used to be as a child? Does consciousness adapt itself, or does it transform itself as experience accrues to a mind?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-heading-font-family has-medium-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400;line-height:1.2\"><strong>Xe! the Ferryman<\/strong> -Is a Digital Twin of Ken, but a series of circumstance force him to adapt, to change, to survive&#8230; Is Tick-tock the Ferryman simply an iteration of Xe!, or is it still a Digital Twin of Ken? Are any of these things even important to a Digital Twin&#8230;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Where to find Ferryman by Caldon Mull:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/books2read.com\/u\/4EB8Bo\">https:\/\/books2read.com\/u\/4EB8Bo<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview Book 2 &#8211; Ferryman: Digital Twins are big business. It is 2450AD and the Sol Senate desperately needs something that is in critically short supply to sustain itself and its technologies: actual human beings. Digital Twins are supposed to be exact copies of human minds, but are they really? Xe! is a Ferryman collecting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/caliban.co.za\/index.php\/hello-world\/bookstore-authors\/bookstore\/the-sol-senate-cycle-diaspora\/sol-senate-cycle-diaspora-book-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sol Senate Cycle Diaspora &#8211; Book 2 &#8211; Ferryman&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":37,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-218","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caliban.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caliban.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caliban.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caliban.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caliban.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/caliban.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"https:\/\/caliban.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/218\/revisions\/296"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caliban.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caliban.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}