Tag: Other Universal Laws
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Starlings
I’m still in Outer Space at the moment. Exploring various parts of the Universe that have only recently been discovered by us ‘mere’ Earthlings. Everywhere I look right now, I see the Phoenix. On the side of a lorry, in a book, in a blog post, on TV. It even cropped up whilst I was…
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Ison from Oort
Distance is nothing and size doesn’t matter, all things considered. Well, it is and it does, obviously, but when you think of the vast distances involved in the Universal side of things the overall meaning of the word distance / size becomes somewhat diminished. Take the distance between stars, for instance. They need to be…
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Chamaeleon: A Rogue Planet
You don’t really think of the early Seventeenth Century and connect it to a multi national corporation. Well, I don’t, and I find myself thinking of the early Seventeenth Century quite a lot! However, back in the day, there were one or two multi national corporations in existence. The British had the East India Trading…
Tom
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Anticipation
The room was full. Packed to the rafters. People had come from far and wide to hear me sing. How word had reached that far was beyond me. I don’t sing. I can’t sing. My stomach was in knots as the lighting was turned down. The guitarist was already on stage, warming up: but he…
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The Superhero Diaries 2.4: Going nowhere fast
Technical hitches, it would seem, affect superheroes too. Here’s a transcript of the Satellite Navigation device in the Elite Force of Britain’s Four-Wheel Drive, used whilst the team were supposedly investigating the sudden appearance of a small island named Middlehaven, just off the coast of southern England somewhere: Good. Morning. Please. Enteryour. Destination. . Thank…