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Fire Over Light membership comes in three tiers: free, paid or premium. Membership helps to cover the costs of the servers, email newsletters, and to create original artwork, music and other features. To access the free content which is different from public just requires your email address and your name.

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Diagnostic Scan

The scorched shell of the Proxy, its chem-skin blistered and circuits twitching, gave a human-like appearance to its violent shutdown. Failing systems, barred from commercial data streams and disconnected from private networks, slowly withered as hybrid fluids drained onto the parched ground below, causing electrical circuits to melt and fuse.

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Null State

Originally planned for publishing with "Bound", a mobile-story format, that featured weekly stories from authors including Neal Stephenson, of "Snow Crash" fame, following the demise of "Bound", the stories were never released, but are available in full here.

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Beta Groups

Fire Over Light includes a 'beta-group' on Facebook where the early material, concepts and other materials are shared. Early drafts of stories are also available on 'Google Docs' for Premium Members.

Open Source

Recursive Error

"Recursive Error" includes three full-episodes of the original "Fire Over Light" series that introduces the world and the characters. "Recursive Error" takes place in a world where a synthetic virus has been used to divide the world, with the wealthier, and artificial-intelligence governed super-states, have a genetic immunity and the remainder of the world is vulnerable to the lethal contagion.

Episode 1.0: Pathogenesis

With the discovery of a young girl who has an immunity to the virus, the Governance is forced to re-evaluate its beliefs and the separation that it forced on humanity. PathogenesisDownload Episode One in ePub FormatFOL-EP1-Pathogensis.epub30 KBdownload-circle

Episode 1.5: Kill Box

Human agent of the Governance, Anders McKellar is sent to the Ukraine to assassinate the President with the support of an Approxima kill-team. Shell CasingFOL-EP2-Shell-Casing-1-5.epub22 KBdownload-circle

Episode 2.5: Zero One

An Approxima is taken over by a rogue artificial intelligence in the external states, commonly known as the 'Outside Zones'. Zero OneFOL-EP2-5-Zero-One.epub12 KBdownload-circle

Articles

System Architecture

There are countless platforms which content can be published on whether "Substack", "Wordpress" or "Buy Me A Coffee". Fire Over Light uses Ghost Blog and operates as its own installation on Digital Ocean server. Ghost Blog is extremely customisable, though that requires a lot of set-up and programming experience, integration

Non-Linear Function

"Non-Linear Function" represents the new edition of "Fire Over Light," given the changes over the last 7-8 years and the rapid transformation of the world, faster than initially modeled. "NLF" is the next generation of the series. NLF is new, and the concepts for the new series are being drafted.

FOL: Theme Song

The "Fire Over Light" theme, written by Joshua C Forrest, combines classical themes with electronic tones. The theme needed to capture the two worlds in FOL, the machine-world, and also the the human side of it, a sense of the future, but also a sense of hope.