The Redemption Inquiry

Chapter 8: Krishna in Kapota
Rewind the clock a couple of years, cross the pond, another unlikely hero steps up, the sixth generation hasidic savant from Mumbai, Krishna Katz. He makes like a flea and sticks to a professor of neuropathology at Oxford. The hero’s gig is to map the human brain onto the map of the world. He mainly succeeds in mapping his desire onto his Beloved, Sita. All this intel comes from the neuropathology professor, he too among the redeemed.

Chapter 7: Adam's Prank
Our Hero regroups in a cave beneath his parents’ digs in Champaign-Urbana. He scoops up an armful of technology that will deploy at The Redemption. From his remote location, he demos his fire power by inducing a FabLab at the University of Pittsburgh to generate a life-size set of human sculptures on the floor next to the 3D printer. As seen through the snooping eyes of a friendly spy, who recollects that fateful time from her perspective as one of the redeemed.

Chapter 6: Adam is Banishéd
 
This is what you might call a bildungsroman. The unlikely hero, Adam Saperstein AKA CADMan, an obligate introvert computer geek, gets himself expelled from The University, but not before he’s cadged access to some inside dope, and humiliates his nemesis, Blago Blagojevich, the cryogenically unfrozen president of The University.

Part the Second
Winds of Change
 
In which we hike up Ike Luria’s ladder, in the telling of this tale, to the home base of human intention, what old Ike calls The World of Formation, the place where thought pulls on its pants before snapping into action. Two heroes make the scene, the guys who will see to it that humanity gets the jump on The Redemption, Krishna Katz and Adam CADMan.

Chapter 5: The Blessing of the Sun
 
The Reader is introduced to some weird metaphysical shenanigans. The intersection of The Festival of the Passover with the twenty-eight-year cycle of The Blessing of the Sun frames the action for the rest of the story. The author gets the lowdown sitting in on The Feast of the Messiah led by the seventh-generation ancestor of the future High Priest of the Redemption. A glimpse of light.

Chapter 4: The Corporate Singularity
 
A peek behind the scenes at the legal fiasco, the moral tipping point of Annus 2009. Unchecked corporate power gains a fatal stranglehold over American electoral politics. As told to the author in his chambers by a sitting justice of the United States Supreme Court. A very dark day indeed.

Chapter 3: At Black Market
 
In which the author gives the Reader an eyeful of the dark Underbelly of the Beast as spilled by a former pal deep in the pay of the political goons. The view from The Redemption, in both directions through time’s window.

Chapter 2: Chasing the Dragon
 
The Author’s skinny on the Modern Era by way of his own particulars, the stories of his pater and grandpater. And what’s pain got to do with it. Humanity’s attempt to dodge the pain bullet with dope and technology. It’s slavery down to the ground. The dirty secret? He’s looking back from The Redemption.

Part the First
Ill Winds
 
In which human beings prove that they are hardly worth the air they breathe. Each of the five parts of the book takes the reader up another rung of a rigged game, Ike Luria’s Great Chain of Being. It all starts at ground level, what you might call the World of Making and Doing. Taking cues from his current life, and a quick glimpse at other lives he’s called his own, it’s a dark day on planet earth that drags our Author into the writing of this tale.
Chapter 1: Dawn of the Aquarians
A peek through a keyhole in time at the crooked deal that went down in the 21st and 22nd centuries. As seen through the eyes of a gal, one of the so-called redeemed, looking back to her sorry childhood. She takes a gander both forward and aft in time.

"The Redemption Inquiry," a five-part novel by Michael Diamond, is part noir detective part philosophical investigation into the vagueries of existence and the nature of redemption. As the author navigates his imaginative universe, readers are robed in a tapestry of worlds, each representing a different plane of humanity's struggles with its Other. With an eclectic mix of characters, including a subcontinental Hasid and a brainy visionary kid, the story's journey spans centuries, weaving through historical moments of chaos and redemption.
From dark pub brawls in far flung cities to cosmic quests intertwined with metaphysical inquiries, the narrative delves into the very essence of being. As humanity grapples with its diabolical counterparts amidst the threat of the technological singularity, the story traces the transcendental climb towards unity. Finally, the culmination unveils a divine machinery orchestrating redemption itself, offering a poignant reflection on the intertwined fates of beings beyond the constraints of time.