Five miles west of Cactus Springs, Nevada The road cuts through a vast expanse of flat, lower-elevation Mojave Desert scrub. There’s nothing of interest here, especially because the Lar spaceship that landed during the night is currently invisible thanks to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Null Tower, New York City Noriko Null is sitting on the medical bed, looking away while Dr. Catherine Kalama inspects her left arm. Despite having the entirety of Earth’s medical knowledge in her head, Noriko really doesn’t like taking a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Null Tower, New York City Wearing only a towel, Noriko Null opens her closet: she doesn’t have much choice between the pile of identical black T-shirts with the white Ø symbol and the row of green leather jackets. She undresses[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Stockholm City Hall, Sweden The Nobel Banquet is obviously a highly publicized event, but very rarely it can hold the interest of the general press. This year is different: there are very important scientists and diplomats in the Blue Hall,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There are more than seven billion people on Earth. Millions of different points of view, beliefs and experiences. But today, on every continent, all of them feel the same thing: cold. Less than one hour after the Winter King has[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Myridia, 50 light-years from Earth In the complete and utter chaos of the last half hour, it’s impossible to follow the events from the crowd. People were fleeing the City Hall before its destruction, and now there are thousands of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Null City Hall, Myridia There are few sights like that of a Myridian crowd going into panic. Thousands of duplicates disappear, while hundreds are created just to push other people out of the way and save the original body. Today[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Temple of Aphrodite, Myridia Kristen Lynn feels increasingly out of place. She didn’t know what to expect during this visit, but watching dozens of Kari duplicates immerge themselves in the sacred waters to be re-absorbed by Kari’s original body would[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mortal Memorial Museum, Myridia Kristen Lynn is starting to feel sick. She thought she’d be able to remain impartial during the visit, to explore the somewhat alien society of Myridia. But the pictures and recordings of the memorial show things[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Manhattan, New York City Noriko Null has been where few mortals have gone before. She’s explored alien worlds, landed on a neutron star, drove a bike on the back of a space dragon, she’s gone to Hell and to other[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
