The Redemption Inquiry

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 dive, Cafe Soma. The former resistance leader DJRoNK morphs into shady nightclub performer, RamKat. Wherein the Hack Pack track him down and effect a rescue.

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 CADMan’s cryptogram. Of all the riff raff, he fingers Ram Nissan Katz AKA RamKat as The High Priest of The Redemption. Pink’s inquiry spurs the Omniscient Narrator to tip his hand.

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.

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 CADMan’s vast eternal code. The action unfolds before the gobsmacked eyes of the Hack Pack.

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.

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 from the Redemption viewpoint of a Clinical Behavioral Science Technician.

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 consciousness is packaged and loaded onto the jalopy of Will and Desire.

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.

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 Emanation’s tub. The underpinning of tribal and religious empires is challenged by the beauty and terror of science and of workers’ collectives. And in the world of art and music, the rug’s been pulled out from under the old guys. On the Left Bank of the Seine, a redeemed narrator wields the Power of the Golem, the baton passed to him by his predecessors on account of the beleaguered Israelitish People.

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, our Humble Narrator, Dash Hammett, takes exception to Evola’s hornswoggle. The Establishment erupts into an explosion of flying glass and Cool Cats in every direction. Hammett makes off with the final metaphor.