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  1. Dedication
  2. Introduction 1
  3. Preface
  4. Epigraph
  5. First Childhood
  6. Chapter 1
  7. Chapter 2
  8. Interlude
  9. Chapter 3
  10. Chapter 4
  11. Chapter 5
  12. Chapter 6
  13. Interlude
  14. Chapter 7
  15. Chapter 8
  16. Chapter 9
  17. Interlude
  18. Chapter 10
  19. Chapter 11
  20. Interlude
  21. Chapter 12
  22. Chapter 13
  23. Chapter 14
  24. Chapter 15
  25. Chapter 16
  26. Interlude
  27. Chapter 17
  28. Interlude
  29. Chapter 18
  30. Chapter 19
  31. Chapter 20
  32. Chapter 21
  33. Interlude
  34. Afterwards
  35. Chapter 22
  36. Chapter 23
  37. Chapter 24
  38. Chapter 25
  39. Introduction 2
  40. Interlude 8
  41. Introduction 3
  42. Appendix 1
  43. Appendix 2
  44. Appendix 3
  45. Appendix 4
  46. Appendix 5
  47. Acknowledgments
  48. About-the-author

3 Note that overreliance on the polysomatic network poses a danger to this worst-case recovery plan, since body-separation trauma exacerbated by grief might incapacitate many survivors beyond the recovery point. This is one of the things I have been worrying about lately.

Appendix 2

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

Inhabitants of the Nation of Fullbelly at the time of the Unraveling

Iraxis and Spin-Nupolo Cohorts

  • Fift Brulio Iraxis (3-bodied Staid, 16 years old, apprentice banker-historian)

    • Pip Mirtumil Iraxis, Mother (3-bodied Staid, 317, banker-historian)
    • Nupolo Imsmi Iraxis, Father (2-bodied Vail, 640, military poet)
    • Arevio Reflori Iraxis, Father (3-bodied Vail, 520)
    • Squell Urizus Iraxis, Father (4-bodied Vail, 360, asteroid worker)
    • Smistria Ishteni Iraxis, Father (2-bodied Vail, 320, adjudication reactant)
    • Frill Evementis Iraxis, Father (4-bodied Vail, 295)
    • Thurm Takalsit Iraxis, Father (3-bodied Vail, 263, agronomist)
    • Miskisk Orovoia Iraxis, Father (3-bodied Vail, 240)
    • Grobbard Erevulios Iraxis, Father (4-bodied Staid, 230, education topology mediator)

  • Chalia Rigorosa Spin-Nupolo (3-bodied Vail, three months old)

    • Mulis Ovs Spin-Nupolo, Mother (5-bodied Vail, 432)
    • Ellix Verenthis Spin-Nupolo, Father (2-bodied Staid, 560, Peaceable), Nupolo Imsmi Iraxis’s youngersibling
    • Thrimon Urtis Spin-Nupolo, Father (4-bodied Staid, 320)
    • Egathelie Turum Spin-Nupolo, Father (3-bodied Vail, 308), later, Mother of Lumlu Mageria
    • (18 other parents)

Fnax Cohort

  • Shria Qualia Fnax (3-bodied Vail, 16, apprentice genital designer)

  • Tusha Ivetris Fnax, Shria’s eldersibling (2-bodied Vail, 24)

    • Sangh Tenrik Fnax, Shria’s Mother (2-bodied Vail, 307)
    • Polidar Ziz Fnax, Father (5-bodied Staid, 245)
    • (Tusha’s Mother and 14 other parents)

Um Cohort

  • Dobroc Pengasius Um (3-bodied Staid, 17, Long Conversation prodigy)

    • (five Staid eldersiblings, two Vail eldersiblings)
    • (eighty parents)

Other Children of Foo

  • Umlish Mnemu Mnathis (4-bodied Staid, 17), accompanied Fift and Shria on the field trip to the surface

    • (other children on the field trip: Puson, Kimi, Perjes, Tomlest)

  • Vvonda Tenak Peridity-Chandrus (3-bodied Vail, 20), Shria’s friend

    • Mmondi Tenak Peridity-Chandrus, vir Mother (3-bodied Vail, 177, liberal Kumruist officiant)
  • Buturney “Bluey” Snatz Gassal (3-bodied Vail, 22), Shria’s friend
  • Stogma Arax Eptori (2-bodied Vail, 15), Shria’s friend
  • Ruich Milva Snedic (3-bodied Vail, 8, student; later: storyteller)

Other Inhabitants of Fullbelly

  • Pom Politigus (6-bodied Staid, 385, body-design emporium proprietor), Shria’s employer
  • Panaximandra Shebol (1-bodied Vail, 935, ex-soldier and demagogue)
  • Hrotrun Videx Spilteritrine (3-bodied Vail, 135, Far Historical index designer), follower of Panaximandra
  • Predoria Ithigast (2-bodied Vail, 233, industrial reactant), follower of Panaximandra
  • Meroc Ipithia (4-bodied Staid, 145, apprentice splage coordinator)
  • Morinti Bob [later Elarus] (3-bodied Staid, 125), team-tag enthusiast
  • Emim Potching (3-bodied Staid, 75), team-tag enthusiast
  • Bojum Holkitz (4-bodied Vail, 110), team-tag enthusiast
  • Honti Pikipo (2-bodied Vail, 45), team-tag enthusiast

Midwives

  • Miolasia Frin (4-bodied Vail, 506)
  • Umlum Canalepsis (4-bodied Staid, 469)
  • Rysthia Aresti (5-bodied Vail, 831)
  • Elo Fesis (3-bodied Staid, 620)

Others

  • Thavé (12-bodied Staid, ~500,000, planetary survival consultant), your humble correspondent

Appendix 3

BRIEF GLOSSARY OF PLANETARY INSTITUTIONS

adjudicator: professional responsible for the resolving of interpersonal and social conflicts. Prior to the Unraveling, adjudication was successful in almost all cases.

agent: a Far Technological automated entity, resident in the feed, tasked with specific functions such as maintenance of the nutrient flow, or advising a particular human.

anonybody: an anonymized teleoperated body, superficially integrated with the polysomatic network for temporary use.

Ascensionist: one of the planet’s religions, emotive, lyrical, and focused on the apotheotic transcendence of practitioners.