Film Reviews

Review: Das Schloss

Director: Michael Haneke Writers: Michael Haneke, Franz Kafka (novel) Stars: Ulrich Mühe, Susanne Lothar, Nikolaus Paryla Michael Haneke has left in his wake a series of bleak, quietly disturbing, and serenely harrowing films. From, ‘Funny […]

Short Stories

Katie and the Stars

Katie stared at the night sky. It was a majestic sight. The celestial empire stared back with infinite splendour and infinite indifference. She felt like a vagrant, an intruder, a condemned exile poised on the […]

Essays

Occultation of the Moon

Over the millennia, numerous feasts, sacrifices, and wild orgies have been associated with worship of the moon. We’ve built temples and ziggurats, altars and pagodas, artefacts and ornaments in honour of the moon. The latest […]

Sci Fi

The Red Giant

Merlin and Jade stood at the shore of a vast ocean. The two brothers gazed at the bright red sun that throbbed in the burnt orange-blue sky as they stood on a barren and secluded […]

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The Portal

Ogur was irritated. He was not one who would tolerate loose talk and mumbo-jumbo. I say he, but gender was of no import in the five-dimensional world of hyperspace that Ogur and his kind inhabited. […]

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The Journey

It had been seven days and five hours since Giles had experienced his first full-frontal encounter with the most powerful hallucinogenic substance known to man. To say he was still shaken, would be cutting it […]

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The Followers

1.  The Long Dance with Superstition The festivities were in full swing. The central bonfire blazed brightly and coughed sparks and white smoke into the night sky. High priests held incense sticks—some muttered mantras, others […]

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The Dome

Tyrol gazed in silence at the distant glimmering walls of the colossal glass Dome under which the city of Jericho-2 nestled in silent midnight splendour. From his bedroom window he could see the sleek skyline […]

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The Chateau

Outside the massive stone walls of the Chateau de Chambord, the French Revolution raged. The crops were failing, the royal coffers were empty, the country was bankrupted by ruinous wars in the Americas, food was […]

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The Scrivener to the Stars

Twelve thousand years had passed since primitive man had first set foot on their Moon. The progress of man had been inexorable since then. Earth was once his cradle—a place he resided in during the […]

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The Endgame

“In exercising supreme, full, and immediate power in the universal Church, the Roman pontiff makes use of the departments of the Roman Curia which, therefore, perform their duties in his name and with his authority […]

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A New Awakening

Part 1: The beginning It took them a surprisingly long time to figure out that they were living in a universe that was just one bubble in a vast surging cosmic ocean filled with other […]

Book Reviews

Review – ‘Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think’ by Peter Diamandis

“This brilliant must-read book provides the key to the coming era of abundance replacing eons of scarcity.Abundance is a powerful antidote to today’s malaise and pessimism.” – Ray Kurzweil “Abundance provides proof that the proper combination of technology, […]