“Who is this Child of Night?”(Darker Than You Think, Jack Williamson, Gateway Essentials, Google Books.) New Xanadu, coordinates 000.000/000.000/000.000August seventeenth, 666 GE In the upscale second sector of New Xanadu, two men dressed in sleek black suits stepped out of the elevator onto the fortieth floor of a high-end, level-oneContinue Reading
The room was filled, wall to cavernous wall, with the animate dregs of the universe. Grotesque creatures from the lowest star systems, drunk on spiced liquor and their own fetid vapors. Gamorreans, twisted humans, jawas—all reveling in base pleasures, or raucously comparing mean feats. (James Kahn, Return of the Jedi:Continue Reading
“According to Trebitsch Lincoln (who claimed to be, in reality, the lama Giordi Den), the Society of the Green Men—related to the Thule Society—originated in Tibet. In Berlin, a Tibetan monk, nicknamed ‘the Man with the Green Gloves,’ who on three occasions accurately predicted in the press the number ofContinue Reading
In applying our “fantastic-reality” theory tohistory, we have adopted a process of selection. Sometimes we havechosen facts of minor importance, but suggestive of some form of aberration,because, up to a certain point, it was in aberration that we were seeking a clue.[…] Can this method be used to forecast theContinue Reading
Ripley fell back, grabbed a strut support while her other handflailed at and contacted an emergency release. That blew the rear hatch. Instantly, all the air in the shuttle andanything not secured by bolt or strap was sucked out into space. (Alan Dean Foster, Alien: The Official Novelization, 20th CenturyContinue Reading
Never and never, my girl riding far and nearIn the land of the hearthstone tales, and spelled asleep,Fear or believe that the wolf in a sheep white hoodLoping and bleating roughly and blithely leap,My dear, my dear,Out of a lair in the flocked leaves in the dew dipped yearTo eatContinue Reading
They move away in peace with themselves.To new worlds.Because there are so many in a Universe.And there are so many universes to explore. (Carlos Trillo, Robin of the Stars) Gliese 614 IV, coordinates 285.747/+79.016/20052.661July 25th, 666 GE On the holo-screen, the man’s face was grave—as one might expect from someoneContinue Reading
You can get further with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word. (Robert De Niro – Al Capone, The Untouchables, 1987) Although Shirl was a product of the werewolves’ twisted science, when Twiglet spotted her beyond the thick plastiglass window separating the mainContinue Reading
