The Curated Guide to Hellsborough and The Dark Peak
Your Guide to navigating Hellsborough and The Dark Peak by Pip Rippon.
The finished version of Dark Peak: Hellsborough Chronicles Book One, is now available in Kindle and paperback formats from Amazon -- or you can download the first 7 chapters for free in ePub or Kindle mobi format from Hellsborough Library
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The Hinge and the illimitable cleavage
Reality Is Not What It
Seems The Journey to Quantum Gravity, Carlo Rovelli
I’ll have to admit that my knowledge of physics is woefully inadequate,
quantum physics in particular – and quantum gravity, I hadn’t ever heard
of, yet this book helped with explaining the mechanisms underlying the
illimitable cleavage. Available from Amazon on Kindle, or as a Paperback
The City & The
City, China
Mieville
Neighbouring cities occupying the same geographical space, unseeable and
reachable only via political visa, International airspace, or breach.
Beszel and Ul Qoma, as different and related as Hillsborough and
Hellsborough. Available from Amazon on Kindle, or as a Paperback, or as an Audiobook
Snow Crash, Neil Stephenson
The metaverse and a mind infecting neuro-linguistic virus could put this
book in the fungal AI section above, but for me it was the realisation
that the nam-shub of Enki was an ancient artefact not so dissimilar to
the semagram of Milting. Available from Amazon on Kindle, or as a Paperback, or as an Audiobook
Stories of Your Life
and Others, Ted
Chiang
The title short story of this anthology really helped me understand what
the semagrams of Milting were, and indeed it is from that story that I
purloined the name semagram – an ancient method of communication and
linguistics. The story was also made into the film Arrival. Available from
Amazon on Kindle, or as a Paperback
The Netherlands
A Scanner Darkly,
Philip K. Dick
Substance D causes irreversible brain damage, which helped me understand
the power and sway that rockcrust has in The Dark Peak. PKD has always
been a favourite author of mine, and his story Do Androids Dream of
Electric Sheep was adapted to become the seminal classic film Bladerunner – both of
which help me relate to the crosslands and the clowns. His story Second Variety
(available as a free ebook from Project Gutenberg) is also something
that always lurks at the back of my mind and helps inform me of some of
the stranger things that happen here or hereabouts. A Scanner Darkly is
available from Amazon on Kindle, or as a Paperback
A Clockwork
Orange, Anthony
Burgess
Nadsat is not the language of the Netherlanders, but their language is
different to yours (most of what your read from me is translated), but
that aside, the general feel of the novel isn’t dissimilar to what you
feel if you visit the crosslands. Like the film Propect, this book could
appear in multiple categories, especially the culture of Hellsborough.
Available from Amazon on Kindle, or as a Paperback
The Stars My
Destination, Alfred
Bester
In the crosslands, the leader of the Moors clan is a gnarly individual
that goes by the name of Scarp Southey – When I read this novel, the
protagonist Gully Foyle, pretty much a disgusting savage, made me think
of Scarp. Available from Amazon on Kindle, or as a Paperback
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
The earth is covered with ash, it clogs the rivers and hides the sun. It
is difficult to breathe and often impossible to see. Nights are dark
beyond darkness and the days more gray then the one that came before.
Available from Amazon on Kindle, as a Paperback, or as a film of the same
name
The Hacker Crackdown:
Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier, Bruce Sterling
Early cyberspace (as it’s now known) during one of the fastest
technological transformations in human history, a peek into the parallel
world of the crosslanders. Available from Project Gutenberg in various
formats, or as a Paperback here
Prospect
I have already mentioned Prospect, but the analogue technology used in
the film has very definite parallels devices I have seen out in the
Nether lands, and the general feel of the film is almost like being
there. Available on Amazon Prime Video
The Peripheral, William Gibson
Like the end of chapter 5 of this curated guide – Part 2 - the
inconceivable – this final insight into my understanding of the world of
Hellsborough and The Dark Peak is, indeed, inconceivable. The Nether
lands are poor, desperate and struggling, yet advanced technology is
evident – this title (both the book and the dramatisation) have helped
me understand the relationship of the crosslands with the fungai.
Available from Amazon on Kindle, as a Paperback, Audiobook, or as a
dramatised serialisation on Amazon Prime