| Cascade Failure | |
|---|---|
| Joel Kreissman | |
| Format | Short story |
| Character | Gregory |
| Year | 2302 |
| Canonicity | Canon |
| Appears in | Clade — A Post-Self Anthology |
| Read here | |
"Cascade Failure" follows Gregory as he tries to recreate entire ecosystems from phys-side. Running into issues with programming behaviors into the construct animals, he takes a break to go attend a gallery exhibition by Dear of the Ode clade. The next day, he finds several critters he did not create populating the ecology sims such as tics and opossums. On trying to sweet the sims to start over, he discovers that they are all instances — his own instances. Apparently, the exhibition inspired him to just...be bugs.
| Canon works | ||
|---|---|---|
| Books | The Post-Self Cycle | Qoheleth and "Gallery Exhibition: A Love Story" • Toledot • Nevi'im • Mitzvot and "Selected Letters" |
| Stories of Restoration | Marsh • Idumea • Kaddish • April May Yet Come | |
| Motes Played • Unintended Tendencies | ||
| Short stories | In Clade | Sufficiently Advanced • Genre Clade • Après un rêve • Support Group for Anomalies in Forking • Cowboy • True Love Lies Within and Without • The Big O • She Who Haunts the Storm • Earthbound • Cascade Failure |
| In Marsh' | Game Night • Home From the Game • The Party at the End of the World • A Well-Trained Eye • Toward Eternity • Prophecies • Journal of Diago Pereira • Millwright • Sentences | |
| Assignment • Coffee Leak • Dreams for Breakfast • Fever Dreams • For Old Times New • Hues • Meeting of One • Opportunity Paralysis • The Party • To — in the days after her death • Reading • Regret of Potential • Scan • Shared Moment • Wrigglings Toward | ||