Jailer Blok CZ: that’s what my jailer Blok calls me. He always lingers over the ‘C’ when he pronounces my name, a long open vowel sound: ‘Cee-Zed’. [...]

  The Face of Z The cell door slammed shut. It was made of reinforced metal with rivets punched round the outer edge. I could see the dull reflection [...]

  Destruction of Anticlockwise No-one had foreseen the destruction of Anticlockwise. It was early March. The sun had been shining but everywhere there [...]

Spirian Altra: The Future Foretold  Spirian Altra transformed my view of the world in a matter of seconds. It’s amazing how far-reaching some incidents in [...]

Exile in Isolium: Banishment to the Faraway Galaxy I felt suicidal yesterday. Sometimes when I start thinking about the futility of my life in [...]

Long-Eyed Lasers: War, Robotic Engineering and Crime Clancy and I spend a lot of time watching science-fiction TV series. We like viewing six or seven [...]

Unidentified Flying Object: Gigantic Fireball above Infinity Gateway Have you ever seen an Unidentified Flying Object? I hadn’t until last night and [...]

The Cosmic Scandal: Safrons, Neblings, Farawis and Antics Scandals come and go in Anticlockwise. The latest one though, the Cosmic Scandal, was [...]

Feast to Famine: The Lean, Hungry and Dangerous Look We’ve passed from feast to famine in Anticlockwise. Tia told me the other day that I was looking [...]

Dialogue of the Deaf: Sign Language in a Surveillance Culture It’s best not to cross swords with Olaf Kaminski. Olaf is the Head Porter in Infinity. He [...]