SNOWFLAKES IN FIRE `Once upon a time in a world of moral self-righteousness, nobody was seriously threatened by pain or death.’ These were the opening [...]

MONSTERS AND MONSTROUS THOUGHTS Monsters and monstrous thoughts were flashing through my mind. I was travelling through an ominously barbaric place where [...]

PURPLE POINTED HATS My head was filled with images of Purple Pointed Hats. I was sitting in a coffee shop in the main railway station of Globopolis waiting [...]

THE CONDEMNED OF EXTOXIA Max once said to me: `Repetition is what counts. The more often you hear the same thing, the more plausible it becomes.’ I [...]

THE DISORGANISED DAYDREAMER This will sound strange to you, I know, but I have trouble sometimes remembering stuff. I’m not talking about important [...]

WRITTEN IN THE STARS I read my stars today. I don’t make a habit of it. I don’t see my life as being written in the stars. Astrology has never really [...]

LONG-EYED LASERS Clancy and I spend a lot of time watching science-fiction TV series. We like viewing six or seven hour-long episodes one after another. [...]

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 [...]