{"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-13e25c1f wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 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 wp-block-paragraph\">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 wp-block-paragraph\" 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 wp-block-paragraph\" 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 wp-block-paragraph\" 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 wp-block-paragraph\" 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 wp-block-paragraph\" 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 wp-block-paragraph\" 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-a02d4deb 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 wp-block-paragraph\" 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 wp-block-paragraph\" 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 wp-block-paragraph\"><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}]}}