A while ago I did three quick 1 hr. digital sketches for a challenge to interpret some concepts from the Arabian Nights. I science fictioned them. Since then, a story has grown in my head around them, and I need to remember to write it soon.
This one is called Genie in a Bottle. The Infradimensional Algebra required to deny light it’s dominion cannot be accomplished by man or machine. So every starship bottles a Genius, a vat grown neural leviathan that can dream in eleven dimensions.
Carefully tended by Neuologians, the Genius is the most literally vital component of the starship. However, the crew’s moral guardians disapprove of what they see as the necessary enslavement of a living soul.
