The Grand Tour
For a couple of centuries in Europe, the Grand Tour meant a loop taking in the sights of the Continent. Today it means seeing all the world heritage sites. But someday, it'll mean a tour of the Solar System's great sights. As I write this, you still can't get tickets. But one can dream... and that's what you'll find below--a tour of the Solar System, from Mercury out to the Oort Cloud, with a dream or two per body (or belt).
RELATED TOPICS: more dreams of Mars and Luna (only a selection here) - alternate Earths - orbital dreams - deep space - A mystic tours the Solar System in 1877: Divine Image - dreams of other worlds in general - See also the full INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
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MERCURY: by Wayan; 1982/3/7, dream-poem of a lost future. Mercury didn't spin! One side fire, one side ice. We farmed in domes, between--until the sun brightened... CAUTION: RETRO SCIENCE |
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MENTOR: by Wayan; 2001/6/13, six advisory dreamlets. I meet a shapeshifting mentor who warns of coming war (9/11?). Then a sentient book, "The Art of War," gets intimately involved... CAUTION: ELECTRODES, LIBROPHILIA |
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VENUS UNVEILED: by Wayan, 2004/8/30; a virtual world with c.200 photos, maps, portraits. Tour Venus as it will be in 1000 years, after terraforming: paradise for dozens of intelligent species! |
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DUBIA: by Wayan; summer 2003, a nondream sculpture/prophecy/travelog. What Earth will look like 1000 years from now, with doubled CO2, flooded coasts and melted poles... CAUTION: CALLS GEORGE W. BUSH A BIG FAT LIAR |
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PLANET-SCULPTING APE: by "AE" (George Russell); mid-1870s, a childhood characterological dream. On a cloud in space I met an ape molding a model of Earth, glancing at the original far below. We were much alike... |
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OCARINA, or, MILLION-YEAR SENTENCE: by Wayan; 1972/5/27, a lucid / predictive dream. I go lucid and drive my bed to the Nevada desert where I see my next million years. And so far, it’s been true... |
BUFFALO PERSON: by Plenty Coups, summer 1857; a child's time-traveling, tribe-saving dream |
I was led into the future, where all the buffalo disappeared, to meet a frail old man by a ranch house... |
RINGSHADOWS: by Wayan; 1985/3/6, an otherworldly ecodream with subtle advice. |
Earth has rainbow rings. They're braided like Saturn's, so their shadows create tinted microclimates... |
RUNAWAY MOONS: by Wayan; 2011/4/6, an absurd nightmare poem |
New moons appear. I try to mash them into a spare Earth, but botch the orbits. So now, runaway moons rumble down a steep San Francisco hill... CAUTION: ALWAYS SET PARKING BRAKE |
EAT THE MOON: by Wayan; 2013/9/4; a weird shamanic dream-poem |
Lights on the moon! Future cities shine. Gotta fix that time-slip. But in shaman-space, the moon's a deerskull up a tree! I take it down, pocket its jewel-city-eyes and try to stew the moon. I'm Coyote, so my cookery goes wrong... | LUNA -- just a selection! Full list of dreams set on Luna
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GROUNDHOG DAY: by Wayan; 1994/9/2, a dream-comic (or text with pix) |
James Hillman is the first psychologist on the moon! He sees a shadow and panics like a groundhog--mistakes it for Death. Not his own shadow, but MINE... |
BRAID OF SILENCE: by Wayan; 1989/1/24, a brief dream-poem |
We're slaves on the moon. But we're slowly stretching our freedom in the shadows, undoing the Braid of... |
THE LAST LUNAR STORM: by Wayan; 1999/8/27, a dream of a future squared. |
Lunar terraforming lags behind Mars; a global ice storm hits, like the bad old days. But the future... |
LUCID ON THE MOON: by Wayan; 1980/2/23, a long-term psychic dream. |
I'm on the run, on the moon. Cyborgs toss bombs at me. Yikes! Is this what melted Mare Orientalis? CAUTION: NUCLEAR IRRESPONSIBILITY |
MOONCAT: by Wayan; 1995/11/14; a subtle dream-comic about sonar. text version |
Near a mysterious sculpture garden on the moon, lives the blind, bike-riding sage I seek: Moon-Cat... | MARS -- just a selection! Full list of dreams set on Mars
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FUTILITY: by Wayan; 1973/11/23, a time-machine dream. |
I'm Liza Doolittle on Mars. With Mr. Wells's Time Machine. Lost, in fact. Can I get home? Should I? |
IN THE ENEMY MINE: by Wayan; 1986/1/11, a psychic dream. |
On Mars, a child-sacrificing cult of miners wants to kill me, but something strange happens.... |
LASERBOMB: by Wayan, 1995/7/3, a dream on paralysis. |
I'm on Mars. The terraforming is going well. Then saboteurs set off a laserbomb in the street near me... CAUTION: TERRORISM |
MARTIAN AIRLOCK and JAGUAR MASK: by Wayan, 2015/6/22, twin shamanic near-nightmares |
Jaguar Mask: a were-jaguar stuck in human form asks me to sew a new jaguar face on."But won't it hurt?... Martian Airlock: I'm suitless on Mars. Freezing, choking, I dive into an airlock & slam the switch--but it's sabotaged... |
THE MARTIAN FEUD: by Wayan; 1994/3/10, a warning dream. |
On Old Mars, before it died, two rival families' teasing finally goes too far, despite the whale's warning... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
MISFITS ON MARS: by Wayan; 1986/11/20, an epic dream; the climax of the dreamseries UNICORN TAG. |
From the punk clubs of Frisco to the Safeways of Si Valley to the vermilion sands of Mars, Silky the were-nightmare fights for the Misfits against every cliche in science fiction... |
TOWER OF THE MARTIAN DEAD: by Wayan, 1983/7/7; a dream-poem of an exo-Valhalla |
Climbing a mountain on Mars, I reach a hall where I'm transformed into a cryophilic being. Then I feast on methane soup with the heroic Martian dead... | ASTEROID BELT and COMETS
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FLIRTING WITH NAPOLEON: by Wayan; 1995/1/21, a future-oriented dream |
I'm a woman living in a space habitat. A new Napoleon invades us, and damages our life-support. I fight him--but I'm attracted, too. We need to ally to fight the second invasion... |
ECCENTRIC: by Wayan; 1990/5/17, a two-page dream-comic. |
I'm a small planet in an eccentric orbit: a one-day summer, a two-day winter. Rest and hibernate, or... CAUTION: SLACKER ETHIC |
MARTIAN ROBOTS DRESS LIKE FREUD: by Wayan, 1975/8/16, an absurd dream... predicting my life-path? |
Martian robots pester me. I flee through the Asteroids, leaving chaos, cratering Earth. Years later on my farm, a bot shows up disguised as Freud. I start mudslinging... |
VOLCANIC OATH: by Wayan; 1972/5/20; poem of a teenage Tolkien nightmare. |
DAY: our ex-cat comes back, needing surgery. Dad doesn't want to pay. Big quarrel. DREAM: Cats, birds, elf-girls; in their asteroid library, a tale of oath-breaking... Now I'm the one who stole a tooth of jade from the volcano hall. Greed... erupts! CAUTION: NUDE BIRD-ELF, DEATH BY LAVA |
ASTEROID: by Forrest Bess, 1946; four abstractish REM-dream paintings |
All the Asteroids were coming together at last to form something bigger. In church, the dull-eyed preacher hadn't noticed. I led a blind man on toward the new... | JUPITER
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JOVIAN REVOLUTION: by Wayan; 1987/2/22, a dream-poem of another life. |
Deep in Jupiter's atmosphere it's dark as a moonlit night, but warm; we sail a world-sea. And mutiny against our commanders! Clouds clear to a red dawn... CAUTION: RED POLITICS, GREEN NUDITY |
COMETS STRUCK MY GIRLFRIEND: by Wayan; a 1998/8/9 dream painted on a 12" record. |
I knew my new girlfriend was the large economy size but I didn't realize she was a gas giant until... CAUTION: FLATULENT PLANETARY NUDITY |
IN IO: by Wayan, 1981/8/7, a wild otherworldly dream with 3 illustrations. |
I live on Io. It's nicer than its photos. At least inside, where the oceans are--where I grow a second head... |
IO: by Wayan; 2007, revised 2015, a model of Jupiter's moon Io |
I'm fascinated by Io's feverish colors and tumultuous landscape, so I sculpted a detailed portrait and came to some tentative conclusions about what we see... CAUTION: AMATEUR SCIENCE, OH NO! | SATURN
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SATURN BEACH: by Wayan; 1990/4/18, a playful advisory dream |
Sunbathing on Saturn's rings with a girl who's preparing for reincarnation--like me. She's cute, but she chucks litter in the Bay of Rebirth. Maybe not Ms. Right, then... |
SESSILE UTOPIA: by Wayan; 1998/8/8, a utopian dream that hid a precise stock tip |
A writer invents an absurd setting for his Utopia, a lens of ice floating atop Saturn's atmosphere--but then such sessile lenses turn out to be real. The dream's details suggest buying a certain stock. I do, and... |
SATURN'S EYES: by Wayan; 1990/4/28, a surreal dreamlet |
Our expedition to Saturn finds new moons with huge, deep craters staring at us like gigantic eyes--because they are gigantic eyes... |
TITAN, or, SATURN'S WEDDING BAND: by Wayan; 1981/3/22, a billion-mile roadtrip dream. |
Our band's touring Titan. Road trip blues: diners, feuds, romances. Have I been chasing the wrong girl? | URANUS
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THE MIRANDA OATH: by Wayan; 1998/2/24, a subtly predictive political dream. |
Strange oaths are proposed for the first expedition to the Uranian moon Miranda... | NEPTUNE
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TRITONIAN FOXTAUR U.: by Wayan; 2016/9/10, a wish-fulfilling dream set on Triton |
I'm an exchange student at the Solar System's best university for the magic arts; my classmates are methane-breathing foxtaurs... | PLUTO and the KUIPER BELT
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PLUTO THAWS: by Wayan; 1973/1/19, a mythic dream set on Pluto. |
A quarrel between psychic adepts heats up to a war, thawing Pluto. What will the ice-tribes wish for? | OORT CLOUD
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SPLAT!: by Wayan; 1995/12/11, a science-fiction dream. |
Our physics project is top secret, but a stranger strolls into a meeting and opens a can of green light... |
MIDWAY: by Wayan; 1994/2/4, twin shamanic dream-lessons. |
I'm cold and dark and disoriented! What am I doing wrong? Nothing--I'm just halfway to Alpha Centauri... |
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