2001 AD: The Future!
22 December 2001: Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
It began late one night, in Chicago I believe, or an imaginary city much like it, with Errthum and I,... I was down in the Ped Mall, heading west along it from Linn Street, on a springish day, with crowds... On a film set resembling the bridge behind the Iowa Memorial Union, looking northwest at it. Heavenly light pours in... Wile E. Coyote was chasing the Roadrunner yet again. They were on an urban street. The Roadrunner crept up behind... A big disaster is impending. We must flee! Fortunately, Lehmer had a plan to save us. He leads us to... Running towards the top of a high building, chased by someone resembling my sister who was trying to stop me.... I was in San Francisco with Graham of London, en route somewhere else...I'd never been there, and was being guided... Walking to a set theory class, 22M:104, from wherever my family was living in a new town. My route changed... Sitting in a classroom or hall in a high school, lined with long tables, working on something. Before me I... 23 October 2001: Electric Sex I duelled a man of about my height and build, a little fellow with a delightful body, beautifully contoured and... Jackson Doran and two others were convicted of murder and sentenced to imprisonment by the Theatre Department. Scary Italian Film... Tom was with me, in a quasi-futuroid city, very Ming the Merciless. An air-bus is loading just then, boxy as... I had gone to the Mall--a great big sterile glassy place, of course, with none of the snugness and comfort... I was in a class for which I had to study several works of 'art', photocopies of which were given... 20 August 2001: Night of the Other Triffids Carnivorous plants without mouths, mere stalks, spongy, green, and lined with narrow needle-leaves, and tipped with a single bud with... I was reading a book...I saw the text typed out neatly, black on the white pages, and my eyes seemed... Something about being in China, and riding trams, and also a little valley of some sort, in a little notch... Errthum was hoping to buy some marijuana...Fortunately, I just happened to have some on hand, a knot of green Twizzlers... 10 July 2001: Cars 05 July 2001: A Barbarian Warlord I was the warlord-king of a barbarian horde, out to conquer a mighty empire like the Mongols of old. I... A meeting was taking place, a business meeting, very official, in a bright, sterile conference room with men and women... Two men, the leaders of a community, were standing on a balcony, overlooking a mass of their citizens one night.... There was a gourd, or something gourdlike, a very odd reddish colour, vaguely gourd-shaped but very convoluted, twisting, almost like... Some strange extraterrestrial invaders or conquerors had just left the planet, and I and a small group of other survivors... There was a house, with Grace and Bonnie running 'round it, and outside there was a stage, some seven feet... Kev, some stranger, and I had to chase Len after Dr Happy Pants had made a speech in the cafeteria... I could see Jupiter! Up in the night sky...Not at first, though. I found it by its moons, little sparks... There was something about spiders disguised as people in 1948, and the invention, in secret, of calculators for them, which... There was sandwich board displaying a newspaper headline: 'QUEEN ELIZABETH TO BE SALTED ALREADY' So the story ran, 'The Queen... I was in a black car, in the passenger's seat up front, helping transport the effects of a wealthy German... The famous Surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon were out on the Visto driving westwards, and had paused to spend... I was visiting London as a guest of the famous Surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, only...I couldn't find them... I had discovered a marvellous bathroom, all tiled in while, which could, on the opening and closing of certain specific... I was a loyal British adventurer in the 18th Century, present for the signing of an historic peace treaty between... I kept waking up at all hours, trying to carry out pointless little dream-tasks...I'd wake up, start doing something, then... I flew again. A maiden was trying to romance a simple yeoman at a festival of balloon inflation. Yet he... It was in the Carolinas, during the days of slavery. A bunch of white plantation owners and their millions of... 26 March 2001: Besieg'd in Mer Majesty's Dominion of Canada 17 March 2001: Mars 22 February 2001: Random Acts of Senseless Violence I realised I was dreaming and dreamt a gun into my hand and started pumping bullets into people I didn't... Billy was an alien creature, devouring the crew of a human explorer ship, thousands of millennia and billions of light-years... The main character was a King, a nervous, fearful chap, with blond hair and a blond full beard, short and... 05 January 2001: Shapeshifting I was taken in and adopted by a large, poverty-stricken family of inventors some two centuries ago. They had been... Mr Graham Sleight and I were both dressed as proper late-Victorian gentlemen, out for a stroll through Iowa City in... Video footage was found of a woman, now in her thirties, who'd been thought dead for ten years. She was... |