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
Time travel has always fascinated us. From H.G. Wells’ Victorian machine to modern cinematic paradoxes, the idea of revisiting the past feels both irresistible and deeply unsettling. But when we move from fiction to physics, something curious happens: the future seems accessible… while the past remains stubbornly out of reach.Continue 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
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
The object was white plaster. It looked like the cast of a disk-shaped, deep-graven stone. A part of the curved rim of the original must have been worn flat; it must have been cracked, he saw, and a little segment lost. That sweet fetor clung to it in an evilContinue Reading
New Xanadu, coordinates 000.000/000.000/000.000July 24th, 666 GE It seems that I have what might be called a rather unusual power […] everyone loves me, every thing in fact. […] The ugliest old man, the sweetest young child, yearn only for one thing from me. Life is hell, I tell you.Continue Reading
