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Evil Genius w. Clockwork Brain
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- What has brought you to New Babbage and SL Steampunk?
- Build the insane asylum and my laboratory for
Capture the universe, metaverse ans second life
- Could you provide a bit of background about yourself?
- Dr. Fisher is spending his July holiday in Baden. While he is there, Baron Savitch, a rising Russian politician, is said to be ill by one of the hotel staff. Fisher is led into the baron’s room where he finds the baron ill and shaking. Fisher notices that the baron’s head is somewhat peculiar. The baron’s head has a black silk skullcap which Fisher removes and finds the top of the baron’s head to be a silver dome. The baron tells him to unscrew it but before he can, Dr. Rapperschwyll, the baron's doctor, comes in and tells Fisher to get out.
There is a lot of controversy surrounding Savitch, mostly concerning his humble beginnings to his rise in the Tsar's court after graduating from the University of Dorpat. Wanting to know more, Fisher confronts Rapperschwyll at an old observation tower when the ladder falls and they find themselves trapped up there for hours. Rapperschwyll, after swearing Fisher to secrecy, tells him the story of Baron Savitch.
Baron Savitch grew up in a mental asylum and was mute and retarded. Rapperschwyll found him there one day and with his skill in medicine and watch making he made a clockwork brain for Savitch similar to Charles Babbage's difference engine. With this mechanical brain, Baron Savitch cannot make a mistake and with time will rise to become the next Napoleon.
Later in Paris, Fisher finds Baron Savitch on a diplomatic mission. He learns Savitch will soon marry and is disgusted by the idea of a women being married to a machine. He finds that Rapperschwyll has returned to his native Switzerland, visiting his dying mother. With this knowledge, Fisher waits for the baron to feel ill again. Once that has happened Fisher comes to his aid as a doctor. With the baron's guard down, Fisher takes his brain, runs off with it and later throws it into the Atlantic ocean on his return trip to America.
- Do you have a website?
- http://asylumental.blogspot.com
- Perhaps a second one?
- http://www.secondrussia.com
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Georgia on My Mind and Other Places - story about Babbage's Analytical Engine
Charles Sheffield's new collection, Georgia on My Mind and Other Places, contains 14 of his short stories, most originally published between 1987 and 1994. Each story contains a brief afterword where Sheffield explains what inspired the story.
The stories cover a wide range of issues and ideas, and while Sheffield is best known as a hard science fiction writer, he shows in this collection his ability to weave strong characters, emotion and some very personal themes around his scientific foundat… Continue
The stories cover a wide range of issues and ideas, and while Sheffield is best known as a hard science fiction writer, he shows in this collection his ability to weave strong characters, emotion and some very personal themes around his scientific foundat… Continue
Posted on January 19, 2009 at 8:17am — 2 Comments
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Your nature brain working weaker zen my :)
"Rapperschwyll found him there one day and with his skill in medicine and watch making he made a clockwork brain for Savitch similar to Charles Babbage's difference engine. With this mechanical brain, Baron Savitch cannot make a mistake and with time will rise to become the next Napoleon."
Modern peoples calls it as computer as I know. But I tink zat my mekanical brain funtion betterr! :) He-he
And I tink zet cardio iz main part in human organizm. And vi can change our brains and ozer part of body as vi need to be a genius! :)
Insane asylum is nice place to tink about someself, universe and meta... I tink zet wil be better to bild Asylum in New Babbage. May be I will make it in small future :) Take care your eyes and brains now :)
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