THE COSMIC SCANDAL Scandals come and go in Anticlockwise. The latest one though, the Cosmic Scandal, was particularly dramatic. It was as usual centred on [...]

FEAST TO FAMINE We’ve passed from feast to famine in Anticlockwise. Tia told me the other day that I was looking seriously scrawny. One of her [...]

DIALOGUE OF THE DEAF It’s best not to cross swords with Olaf Kaminski. Olaf is the Head Porter in Infinity. He works during the day and occasionally `drops [...]

TAGGING DEVIANTS You realise that you’re a deviant when you’ve been electronically tagged. Tagging deviants was the latest device dreamed up by the [...]

PASSPORTS AND VISAS Identity documents such as passports and visas are critically important at times of social unrest and disorder. I saw Tia again [...]

COLOURED TARGETS I’d never really noticed the colour of anyone’s hair before. It wasn’t the sort of thing that ever crossed my mind. The fact that [...]

ORPHANS AND EXILED FAMILIES I’ve been reflecting on orphans and exiled families recently. I made contact with a Neblusian called Elejida soon after I [...]

GOVERNMENTS TRICKSTERS DEMAGOGUES I came across a sci-fi tale in an online magazine the other day that intrigued me: The Rise and Fall of Dethko. The [...]

LIGHTNING LINK I’ve been using the Lightning Link that Max set up a year ago. It’s a highly sophisticated form of interstellar communications [...]

MAX DESTINO-COIN I met Max Destino-Coin about a year ago. He was living at Infinity Gateway at the time. Not any more though. He’s moved to a private [...]