Sensies

The Rebel Worlds.

After crash-landing on Dido:

"When the lock was opened full, the air turned into a steam bath. Odors blew strange, a hundred pungencies, fragrant, sharp, rotten, spicy, nameless. Men gasped..." (CHAPTER EIGHT, p. 443)

Words can express this. Films are only audiovisual - so far. Aaron Snelund had been:

"'...a sensie actor...'" (CHAPTER TWO, p. 385)

Would a sensie audience smell the odours and gasp in the steam bath? 

Of course, we go further and imagine a virtual reality in which we can live the role of Flandry or one of the other characters and are we living in a simulation already? Some argue we are. I doubt it. Either we are in a base reality or we are in a simulation so complete that we will never know. But, as ever, let's see the evidence.