Notes for the Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul - Rudy Rucker

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Notes for The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul, by Rudy Rucker Word Count January 27, 2004. I’ve got 170 pages with 48,877 words, which makes 288 words per page. I’ve written three chapters, which are still growing a bit, so I think I can get by with seven chapters. April 21, 2004. I’ve got 81,200 words, now and am a bit more than halfway through chapter four. Call it 3.6 chapters done. As the chapters keep fattening up, I’m thinking I can get by with six of them rather than seven. Forget theology. Just the canonical ordo sciendi of six: CS, Physics, Bio, Psych, Soc, Phil. With six chapters, I could expect to have 81,200 * (6.0/3.6) which is about 135,00 words, which is more than enough. I’ve got 86 illustrations, so a similar computation indicates I might expect to have 143 illos all told ⎯ although this may be too high as I’m not sure there will be as high a density of illos in chapters 5 and 6. Lengths of recent books. The Hacker And The Ants 92,000 Freeware 97,000 Saucer Wisdom 84,611 Realware 105, 351 Bruegel 137, 869 Spaceland 90,500 Frek and the Elixir 163,000 The Lifebox, the Seashell and the Soul 152,100 Chapter Length Computation in Geneva, July 22, 2004. I’m measuring this when I happen to be in Geneva and I’m using A4 page lengths. I have 357 of these totaling 108,686 words, which means 304 words per page. Now it looks like I’d need maybe 25 more pages in chapter 5 and 60 more in chapter 6, so I need 85 more in all, which would be 25,840 more words. Say just 25,000 more. So I’d be hitting a length of, say, 134,000 total. So that would mean that I’m 81% done. Chapter Number of pages (A4 size paper) 1. Computer Science. 74 2. Physics. 58 3. Biology. 56 4. Psychology. 88 5. Sociology. 34 6. Philosophy. 13 Appendix 7 Notes 12 p. 8
Notes for The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul, by Rudy Rucker Chapter Length Computation in Los Gatos, August 13, 2004 Chapter Word count (Including endnotes) 1. (CS) Computation Everywhere 24,311 2. (Physics) Our Rich World 19,791 3. (Biology) Life’s Lovely Gnarl 19,060 4. (Psychology) Enjoying Your Mind 27,718 5. (Sociology) The Human Hive 18,56 6. (Philosophy) Reality Upgrade 3,264 A. Technical Appendix 4,676 The endnotes on their own are 8,785 words. Chapter Length Computation Sept 14, 2004 Chapter Word count Preface 1,124 1. (CS) Computation Everywhere 26,503 2. (Physics) Our Rich World 20,627 3. (Biology) Life’s Lovely Gnarl 19,240 4. (Psychology) Enjoying Your Mind 30,032 5. (Sociology) The Human Hive 23,462 6. (Philosophy) Reality Upgrade 21,391 A. Technical Appendix 6,163 Endnotes 13,161 I don’t think the endnotes get counted as part of a chapter’s length, so I’m counting them separately. At this point, I just wish I could finish. I got enough words, I got 149,322 of ‘em. I expect to top out at 150,000 words. Contents Current Contents Chapter One: Computation Everywhere Chapter Two: Our Rich World Chapter Three: Life’s Lovely Gnarl Chapter Four: Enjoying Your Mind Chapter Five: The Human Hive Chapter Six: Reality Upgrade Technical Appendix p. 9
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