City of Deka, planet Myridia One of the advantages of a planet where anyone can make ten thousand copies of himself whenever he wants is that it’s very easy to have a policeman on every street corner. Officer Lar is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Women working in the Oracle Palace consider themselves fortunate. Unlike their mothers and sisters, they are not forced to give birth every ten months; unlike the males, they are not required to serve as guards or soldiers. Women used to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Deka is one of the oldest cities on Myridia, and has been the capital of the planet for many centuries. Its population of five thousand might seem rather low, but since every Myridian can create at will up to ten[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Vesta is flying above the city, carrying Kari in her arms. The Myridian girl is so full of joy she could explode any minute. To be up in the sky, literally free as a bird… <This is amazing! And you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Kari is bored. She’s watching the sun disappear below the horizon. Waiting for something, for anything, to happen. You’re not supposed to feel lonely on Myridia, ever, but she can’t help it. Like any Myridian she knows, she’s been living[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A piece of the Moon is missing. While this is kind of a big deal, the public has not been informed of this because nobody knows where it went. This has made a lot of people really worried. NASA took[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Vesta’s been busy last month, more than the last two thousand years combined. She’s been flying from a crisis to another, helped by the fact that she can’t get tired. This is the first time she’s had some time for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Null Tower has been a permanent construction site for weeks now. Every day there’s something new to replace or update, to the point that it doesn’t resemble the original building anymore. Today there’s quite a crowd to watch the helicopters[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Even though they don’t know it, all the people on Earth are thinking at the same thing: how to write a formula that can kill an alien robot. Not consciously, of course. Many of them are asleep. Many don’t know[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Grand Central Terminal, New York Two thousand pounds of alien metal crash through the ceiling, and the Talos falls to the ground with the sound of a bomb. Most of the windows are already in pieces, thanks to the recent[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
