RESET (Preface)
What happens to humanity when technology stops working? Read more
Fiction
The Exam results
My daughter’s exam results came today. She got three AAA++**s and one AAA++. She is mortified.
She needed at least three AAA/alpha+*s and one AAA++** to get a place at the University she wanted to go to…. Read more
England – the view from Cornwall
Today we remember the tragic destruction of the twin towers in New York forty four years ago, and celebrate Cornish Independence five years ago.
It was a long struggle for Cornwall…. Read more
Infinity and Beyond
Am I human? I feel like a human being. I’m Jack Hawkins, married with two children. But that was a very long time ago. I don’t look like a human being. I have no flesh or bones, I never get hungry.
Actually I’m a starship, Read more
The Pooper Scooper
I got done today. My own fault I suppose. Last week as I came out of Tesco, my receipt blew away as I was packing the car. I spent a half hour trying to find it but to no avail. But a licensed litter picker managed to find it. Maybe she caught it almost as soon as it blew away, I don’t know.
Anyway, the letter came today… Read more
The Ambassador
They came in different ways, but all spectacular.
In China, a three mile wide spaceship blotted out the sun over Beijing and the ambassador flew down in a small craft. In Moscow a ship landed in red square. In London, a beam of light shot down from a ship in stationary orbit and the ambassador transported down it.
In Washington a ship landed…. Read more