Neelay’s Vision in ‘The Overstory’

Julie Borden
The Shortform
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1 min readNov 11, 2024

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Neelay and his father finish building the computer within days of its arrival. He begins to grasp the potential in front of him immediately.

Mesmerized as he writes his first simple programs,

He has found a way to turn his innermost hopes and dreams into active processes.” (Richard Powers)

When not consumed by programming, he immerses himself in science fiction, and his mind merges these two passions. What is already enthralling on the page — he can bring such things to life. Anything he can imagine he can create. Humans are no longer limited to living in this one form, this one limited world.

Even at the height of his career, after he is acknowledged as a world-changing visionary, nothing he has done will evoke awe like his memories of those evenings with his father…

“…never again, this sense of the inconceivable waiting to be conceived.” (Richard Powers)

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Julie Borden
Julie Borden

Written by Julie Borden

Social worker, therapist, reader, writer, head-in-the-clouds dreamer, awed by most everything. (She/her) Reach me at JulieBordenLCSW@gmail.com.

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