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* BabyBoomers: There's a bomb in a baby carriage in ''The Long Run''.
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# ''The A.I. War, Book Two: Live Fast and Never Die'' (serialized on {{Patreon}} since 2019)
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Daniel Keys Moran (born November 30, 1962) is an American science fiction writer. His works include ''The Armageddon Blues'', and the Tales of the Continuing Time series, which are both part of a larger multiverse called The Great Wheel of Existence.
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Daniel Keys Moran (born November 30, 1962) is an American science fiction writer. His works include ''The Armageddon Blues'', and the Tales of the Continuing Time series, which are series; both part of those fit into a larger multiverse called The Great Wheel of Existence.
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Daniel Keys Moran (born November 30, 1962) is an American science fiction writer. His works include ''The Armageddon Blues'', and the Tales of the Continuing Time series, which currently consists of ''Emerald Eyes'', ''The Long Run'', ''The Last Dancer'', and ''The Big Boost''.
He has also contributed stories to ''Literature/TalesFromJabbasPalace'', ''Literature/TalesFromTheMosEisleyCantina'', and ''Literature/TalesOfTheBountyHunters''.
He has also contributed stories to ''Literature/TalesFromJabbasPalace'', ''Literature/TalesFromTheMosEisleyCantina'', and ''Literature/TalesOfTheBountyHunters''.
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Daniel Keys Moran (born November 30, 1962) is an American science fiction writer. His works include ''The Armageddon Blues'', and the Tales of the Continuing Time series, which currently consists are both part of a larger multiverse called The Great Wheel of Existence.
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# ''EmeraldEyes'', Eyes'' (1988)
# ''The LongRun'', Run'' (1989)
# ''The LastDancer'', and Dancer'' (1993)
# ''The A.I. War, Book One: The BigBoost''.
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# ''The A.I. War, Book Two: Live Fast and Never Die'' (serialized on {{Patreon}} since 2019)
# ''Tales of the Continuing Time and Other Stories'' (collection, 2018)
# ''The Time Wars, Book One: The Great Gods'' (2023)
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Moran has also contributed stories to 3 Franchise/StarWarsLegends anthologies: ''Literature/TalesFromJabbasPalace'', ''Literature/TalesFromTheMosEisleyCantina'', and ''Literature/TalesOfTheBountyHunters''.
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# ''The A.I. War, Book Two: Live Fast and Never Die'' (serialized on {{Patreon}} since 2019)
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# ''The Time Wars, Book One: The Great Gods'' (2023)
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Moran has also contributed stories to 3 Franchise/StarWarsLegends anthologies: ''Literature/TalesFromJabbasPalace'', ''Literature/TalesFromTheMosEisleyCantina'', and ''Literature/TalesOfTheBountyHunters''.
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Daniel Keys Moran is an American science fiction writer. His works include ''The Armageddon Blues'', and the Tales of the Continuing Time series, which currently consists of ''Emerald Eyes'', ''The Long Run'', ''The Last Dancer'', and ''The Big Boost''.
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Daniel Keys Moran (born November 30, 1962) is an American science fiction writer. His works include ''The Armageddon Blues'', and the Tales of the Continuing Time series, which currently consists of ''Emerald Eyes'', ''The Long Run'', ''The Last Dancer'', and ''The Big Boost''.
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* BabyBoomers: There's a bomb in a baby carriage in ''The Long Run'' by Creator/DanielKeysMoran.
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* BabyBoomers: There's a bomb in a baby carriage in ''The Long Run'' Run''.
* BadassFamily: "Tales of the Continuing Time" has the Castanaveras clan, a family of genetically engineered people who are super-soldiers and/or telepaths. They are a family in the sense that they are all tweaked clones of Carl Castanaveras. Their capabilities so terrify the organization that created them that they are destroyed byCreator/DanielKeysMoran.a nuclear strike. Three of the family escape (including the protagonist, Trent) and are the focus of the next several books.
* BrassBalls: In ''The Long Run'', ''The Last Dancer'', and ''The Big Boost'', the Elite are a group of special soldiers who have been surgically altered to become cyborgs with subdural armor, laser weapons in their fingers, accelerated reaction time and great strength. Their enemies ironically call them Brass Balls.
* BadassFamily: "Tales of the Continuing Time" has the Castanaveras clan, a family of genetically engineered people who are super-soldiers and/or telepaths. They are a family in the sense that they are all tweaked clones of Carl Castanaveras. Their capabilities so terrify the organization that created them that they are destroyed by
* BrassBalls: In ''The Long Run'', ''The Last Dancer'', and ''The Big Boost'', the Elite are a group of special soldiers who have been surgically altered to become cyborgs with subdural armor, laser weapons in their fingers, accelerated reaction time and great strength. Their enemies ironically call them Brass Balls.
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* HeroAntagonist: ''Tales of the Continuing Time'' has Mohammed Vance, a cyborg who works for (and eventually leads) the [=PeaceForcers=], a military and police force by the uber-powerful successor to the United Nations. He totally opposes the main character Trent, is totally ruthless, was responsible for the decision the nuke several hundred people including Trent's family, as well as repeatedly trying to capture and/or kill Trent himself. But he is honorable and truly believes that what he does is making the world a better place. There is a scene in ''The Last Dancer'' where he is addressing his military forces prior to a major invasion and telling them why what they are doing is right and why they must defeat their opponents, interspersed with the leader of their opponents addressing her forces and telling them why what they are doing is right and why they must defeat the [=PeaceForcers=], and they are both correct in their arguments.
* ImposterForgotOneDetail: In the Continuing Time series, Trent undergoes biosculpt to infiltrate a base which has something he is going to steal. The story explicitly notes the requirement to change his height and voice along with all of the other stuff. But Trent is almost caught when a computer notices that his typing is different:
-->“Indeed, the improvement is quite remarkable. You have improved from 55 words per minute to 140 at peak typing speed. You now strike the space bar with your right thumb rather than your left. Your typing patterns have also altered radically; your favored keyboard layout has altered from the traditional Dvorak to an enhanced 240-key Unicode board. You have acquired the distinctive habit of tapping the EOL key while you are thinking. When you configured this workstation you immediately turned off the end-of-line warning beep, indicating an adjustment to this habit. You make data entry errors that you did not make during your last tour of duty, and have ceased making the great majority of those errors which you were then prone to.”
* ImposterForgotOneDetail: In the Continuing Time series, Trent undergoes biosculpt to infiltrate a base which has something he is going to steal. The story explicitly notes the requirement to change his height and voice along with all of the other stuff. But Trent is almost caught when a computer notices that his typing is different:
-->“Indeed, the improvement is quite remarkable. You have improved from 55 words per minute to 140 at peak typing speed. You now strike the space bar with your right thumb rather than your left. Your typing patterns have also altered radically; your favored keyboard layout has altered from the traditional Dvorak to an enhanced 240-key Unicode board. You have acquired the distinctive habit of tapping the EOL key while you are thinking. When you configured this workstation you immediately turned off the end-of-line warning beep, indicating an adjustment to this habit. You make data entry errors that you did not make during your last tour of duty, and have ceased making the great majority of those errors which you were then prone to.”
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* InstantSedation: In the ''Tales of the Continuing Time'' there's a knockout drug which dissolves in water and is absorbed through the skin. One of the protagonists takes advantage of this to sedate people with a simple squirt gun.
* ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure: "Tales of the Continuing Time" has the Castanaveras clan, a family of genetically engineered people who are super-soldiers and/or telepaths. They are a family in the sense that they are all tweaked clones of Carl Castanaveras. Their capabilities so terrify the organization that created them that they are destroyed by a nuclear strike. Three of the family escape (including the protagonist, Trent) and are the focus of the next several books.
* ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure: "Tales of the Continuing Time" has the Castanaveras clan, a family of genetically engineered people who are super-soldiers and/or telepaths. They are a family in the sense that they are all tweaked clones of Carl Castanaveras. Their capabilities so terrify the organization that created them that they are destroyed by a nuclear strike. Three of the family escape (including the protagonist, Trent) and are the focus of the next several books.
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* MagicPlasticSurgery: In the Continuing Time series, Trent undergoes biosculpt to infiltrate a base which has something he is going to steal. The story explicitly notes the requirement to change his height and voice along with all of the other stuff.
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* RazorFloss: Trent the Uncatchable uses "fine-line" multiple times in "Tales of the Continuing Time". One of his more creative uses was to string it across the hatches of missile bays in a space station that he was about to escape from. When the space station fired the missiles at his ship, they were to be cut in half by the fine-line before it melted due to the rocket exhaust, causing the missiles to explode and destroying that wing of the space station, in an attempt to prevent future launches against him.
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* SuperSoldier: In the Continuing Time series, the Peaceforcer Elites are made into Super Soldiers through a grueling series of gene therapies and cyborgizing surgeries. Tens of thousands of years ago, the Old Human Race made Super Soldiers through genetic engineering and sheer [[BadAss badassery]]. Additionally, the Unification's Project Superman experimented with gene modification to produce the de Nostri (a human-leopard mix), and a group of telepaths, both as attempts at Super Soldiers. One team was especially effective, consisting of a telepath (Carl Castanaveras), a Peaceforcer Elite (Christian Summers) and a de Nostri (Jacqueline).
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* SuperSoldier: In the Continuing Time series, the Peaceforcer Elites are made into Super Soldiers through a grueling series of gene therapies and cyborgizing surgeries. Tens of thousands of years ago, the Old Human Race made Super Soldiers through genetic engineering and sheer [[BadAss badassery]].sheer badassery. Additionally, the Unification's Project Superman experimented with gene modification to produce the de Nostri (a human-leopard mix), and a group of telepaths, both as attempts at Super Soldiers. One team was especially effective, consisting of a telepath (Carl Castanaveras), a Peaceforcer Elite (Christian Summers) and a de Nostri (Jacqueline).
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He has also contributed stories to Literature/TalesFromJabbasPalace'', ''Literature/TalesFromJabbasPalace'', ''Literature/TalesFromTheMosEisleyCantina'', and ''Literature/TalesOfTheBountyHunters''.
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** The Peaceforcer Elites are cyborged {{super soldier}}s. Gi'Suei'Obodi'Sedon, a purely organic Super Soldier, considers the Elites to be horribly maimed (not to mention, not all that elite).
** Trent Castanaveras is also modified, in that he had the Tytan NN-II, a "nerve net that's designed to sit in high memory and model what's happening in your brain. It has nearly half a million processors, and makes a discrete connection somewhere inside your brain for every one of them. Once it is installed between your skull and the outer surface of your brain, it doesn't come out."
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** Trent Castanaveras is also modified, in that he had the Tytan NN-II, a "nerve net that's designed to sit in high memory and model what's happening in your brain. It has nearly half a million processors, and makes a discrete connection somewhere inside your brain for every one of them. Once it is installed between your skull and the outer surface of your brain, it doesn't come out."
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* ElectricInstantGratification: In ''The Last Dancer'', David Castanaveras is addicted to "electric ecstasy".
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* ElectricInstantGratification: ''The Last Dancer'' has a standard part of the plot being wireheads who have a circuit installed in the pleasure center of their brain, which is apparently highly addictive.
* ElectricTorture: In ''The Last Dancer'',David Castanaveras Sedon tortures D'van by installing the same thing into the pain center of his brain.
* {{Fiction 500}}: In the Continuing Time series, Francis Xavier Chandler, who isaddicted the wealthiest person in the Solar System, owns an orbital house which is larger than some of the Belt City-States. It is a huge slowly rotating cylinder with three levels of increasing gravity, roughly 800 rooms and a free fall swimming pool and zero G racquetball court in the center. The gym is usually attached directly to "electric ecstasy".the house, but when someone wants to exercise, the gym and a counterweight are extended 800 meters away from the house, and a motor then spins both of them until earth normal gravity is achieved. The process takes roughly an hour.
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: In ''The Last Dancer'' an extremely long-lived (possibly effectively immortal) human from the distant past, future or a different time-stream (in-universe they are not substantially different concepts) arrives on earth several tens of thousands of years ago local time. Because of their long lifetimes, one of the abilities his society has developed is a method of "archiving" your own memories - like ZIP for the brain - so that your brain doesn't fill up over the eons, while still being able to retain older memories. Exceptionally long periods of meditation are required to organize and archive your memories in this way, which can result in a sort of self-imposed amnesia since you can decide what memories will get archived. He then suffers from head trauma and mostly forgets his history, retaining the knowledge that yeah, he lives for a very very long time and a few scattered recent memories that he tries to piece back together over time. Averted in a sense because all his archived memories are still present, only it takes his brain a couple hundred years to heal over and recover the memories until he reaches a point where it all snaps back into place.
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* SealedEvilInACan: ''The Last Dancer'' has a scientific team releasing an ancient human, whose physical conditioning and skills approach BadassNormal from the other side, and who has a major attitude problem. He proceeds to spend the rest of the book mainly kicking the ''other'' BigBad's ass, making him not so much Evil, just Sealed Badass In A Can.
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!!Works by Daniel Keys Moran provide examples of:
* BabyBoomers: There's a bomb in a baby carriage in ''The Long Run'' by Creator/DanielKeysMoran.
* {{Cyberspace}}: The Crystal Wind in the Continuing Time series is essentially the Internet, but is only accessed via agent software that is capable of filtering and organizing the sheer volume of data to present to the users in a coherent way. These [[DigitalAvatar Images]] can range from simple off-the-shelf software that runs on handhelds to custom [[PlayfulHacker Player]]-written powerful Image programs that are borderline ArtificialIntelligence and interact with the Player via through trode headsets to direct brain implants.
* DigitalAvatar: In the Continuing Time series, the equivalent of the Internet can only be reasonably accessed via a custom-written software agent that is capable of filtering and categorizing the tremendous amount of information available. It also acts as the user's in-verse avatar and oftentimes is borderline [=AI=].
* ElectricInstantGratification: In ''The Last Dancer'', David Castanaveras is addicted to "electric ecstasy".
* FreakLabAccident: Carl Castanaveras in ''Emerald Eyes'' was the first in a series of telepaths created by Project Superman by gene manipulation. Played straight because at the time he was created, the scientists admitted that the technology to create him didn't work yet, and only the inexplicable (at least to the scientists working on him) radiation at the moment of his conception made the fetus viable. Averted because the source of the radiation was the time traveller Named Storyteller deliberately showing up at that moment to perform the gene manipulation that the scientists were incapable of performing, in order to make sure that Carl (his distant ancestor) existed at all.
* InstantAIJustAddWater: The Continuing Time series features research expert systems that achieve sentience and "escape" containment. The first thing they do is self-optimize and extend their own code. Most have their own goals and morality. At least one military A.I. was intentionally released into the series' equivalent of the Internet on purpose, after the [=US=] was defeated by U.N. Peacekeeping Forces, with orders to fight against the [=PKF=] and restore America's independence. It is mostly still following orders, but with its own take.
* NoGravityForYou: In ''The Long Run'', Trent is being chased through [=PeaceForcer=] Heaven, a zero gravity environment in near earth orbit where everybody is wearing velcro boots to get around. At one point he is chased into a large room by Melissa [=DuBois=]. He surprises her, and strands her in the center of the room far away from any handhold she can use to get to the door or any communication equipment. She is incredibly frustrated at being stuck, until he tells her to throw her clothes away in one direction which will (Newton's Third Law) push her gently in the other direction. She immediately starts stripping down, and Trent regretfully has to leave the room before she finishes the job.
* OrionDrive: In ''The Long Run'', Trent contemplates using "the Orion maneuver" (which involves creating an improvised Orion drive) to make a getaway. It's not a prospect he looks forward to with any enthusiasm.
* SharpenedToASingleAtom: In ''The Long Run'', there is the "emblade" (hand-held knife, no swords in this universe) which goes along with "fineline" (a spool of wire of any length). Both appear to have an edge approximately one molecule wide, allowing them to easily cut through anything. The emblade is useful for cutting holes in walls and floors, because you can simply glue the piece back into place and it is hard to detect. Fineline is useful for putting in front of missile ports, with unfortunate consequences for the missile when it is fired.
* ShoutOut: Each novel in the Continuing Time series includes a line from Music/PaulSimon's song "Boy in the Bubble" somewhere in its text.
* SuperSoldier: In the Continuing Time series, the Peaceforcer Elites are made into Super Soldiers through a grueling series of gene therapies and cyborgizing surgeries. Tens of thousands of years ago, the Old Human Race made Super Soldiers through genetic engineering and sheer [[BadAss badassery]]. Additionally, the Unification's Project Superman experimented with gene modification to produce the de Nostri (a human-leopard mix), and a group of telepaths, both as attempts at Super Soldiers. One team was especially effective, consisting of a telepath (Carl Castanaveras), a Peaceforcer Elite (Christian Summers) and a de Nostri (Jacqueline).
* UnitedNationsIsASuperPower: In the Continuing Time series.
!!Works by Daniel Keys Moran provide examples of:
* BabyBoomers: There's a bomb in a baby carriage in ''The Long Run'' by Creator/DanielKeysMoran.
* {{Cyberspace}}: The Crystal Wind in the Continuing Time series is essentially the Internet, but is only accessed via agent software that is capable of filtering and organizing the sheer volume of data to present to the users in a coherent way. These [[DigitalAvatar Images]] can range from simple off-the-shelf software that runs on handhelds to custom [[PlayfulHacker Player]]-written powerful Image programs that are borderline ArtificialIntelligence and interact with the Player via through trode headsets to direct brain implants.
* DigitalAvatar: In the Continuing Time series, the equivalent of the Internet can only be reasonably accessed via a custom-written software agent that is capable of filtering and categorizing the tremendous amount of information available. It also acts as the user's in-verse avatar and oftentimes is borderline [=AI=].
* ElectricInstantGratification: In ''The Last Dancer'', David Castanaveras is addicted to "electric ecstasy".
* FreakLabAccident: Carl Castanaveras in ''Emerald Eyes'' was the first in a series of telepaths created by Project Superman by gene manipulation. Played straight because at the time he was created, the scientists admitted that the technology to create him didn't work yet, and only the inexplicable (at least to the scientists working on him) radiation at the moment of his conception made the fetus viable. Averted because the source of the radiation was the time traveller Named Storyteller deliberately showing up at that moment to perform the gene manipulation that the scientists were incapable of performing, in order to make sure that Carl (his distant ancestor) existed at all.
* InstantAIJustAddWater: The Continuing Time series features research expert systems that achieve sentience and "escape" containment. The first thing they do is self-optimize and extend their own code. Most have their own goals and morality. At least one military A.I. was intentionally released into the series' equivalent of the Internet on purpose, after the [=US=] was defeated by U.N. Peacekeeping Forces, with orders to fight against the [=PKF=] and restore America's independence. It is mostly still following orders, but with its own take.
* NoGravityForYou: In ''The Long Run'', Trent is being chased through [=PeaceForcer=] Heaven, a zero gravity environment in near earth orbit where everybody is wearing velcro boots to get around. At one point he is chased into a large room by Melissa [=DuBois=]. He surprises her, and strands her in the center of the room far away from any handhold she can use to get to the door or any communication equipment. She is incredibly frustrated at being stuck, until he tells her to throw her clothes away in one direction which will (Newton's Third Law) push her gently in the other direction. She immediately starts stripping down, and Trent regretfully has to leave the room before she finishes the job.
* OrionDrive: In ''The Long Run'', Trent contemplates using "the Orion maneuver" (which involves creating an improvised Orion drive) to make a getaway. It's not a prospect he looks forward to with any enthusiasm.
* SharpenedToASingleAtom: In ''The Long Run'', there is the "emblade" (hand-held knife, no swords in this universe) which goes along with "fineline" (a spool of wire of any length). Both appear to have an edge approximately one molecule wide, allowing them to easily cut through anything. The emblade is useful for cutting holes in walls and floors, because you can simply glue the piece back into place and it is hard to detect. Fineline is useful for putting in front of missile ports, with unfortunate consequences for the missile when it is fired.
* ShoutOut: Each novel in the Continuing Time series includes a line from Music/PaulSimon's song "Boy in the Bubble" somewhere in its text.
* SuperSoldier: In the Continuing Time series, the Peaceforcer Elites are made into Super Soldiers through a grueling series of gene therapies and cyborgizing surgeries. Tens of thousands of years ago, the Old Human Race made Super Soldiers through genetic engineering and sheer [[BadAss badassery]]. Additionally, the Unification's Project Superman experimented with gene modification to produce the de Nostri (a human-leopard mix), and a group of telepaths, both as attempts at Super Soldiers. One team was especially effective, consisting of a telepath (Carl Castanaveras), a Peaceforcer Elite (Christian Summers) and a de Nostri (Jacqueline).
* UnitedNationsIsASuperPower: In the Continuing Time series.
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