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10 posts with the tag Medium
0315 - 2026.09 Alien Landscape (Crystal mountain)
I didn’t make the scuppers, but it was a close thing. The pilot was threatened with the scuppers too, but we had only followed orders and taken evasive action. The damage to our craft was dents, not
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0190 - 2025.06 Alien Landscape 2
After the initial frisson of anticipation, the dark line seducing us into believing there was a structure, a city, an industry, something, we took a more rational approach. We slowed, gained altitude
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0314 - 2026.09 Life on
At the Department of Unlikely Coincidences some strange things come across our desks, well, our computer screens, we don’t use desks any longer. Some things are readily explained - I’ve recorded some
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0302 2026.07 In the night sky
Near where we lived was a hill. On the side of the hill facing the sun was a large exposed boulder, big enough in every direction to be a feature. Big enough and flat enough to lie down on when the m
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0298 2025.06 Alien Landscape 3
After the accident, they still let me fly. They being the Head of Exploration. But with a warning, don’t even do that again or I’ll be cleaning out the scuppers for the rest of the voyage. Let me te
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0289 2026.05 Cube World
A story about wealth and poverty and why the gap should be reduced. In the late 20th Century, people reached new heights, literally. Better health, better nutrition Taller people. Simple logic. Five
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0213 - 2025.07 Bleeding Heart
What do you see here? A tropical underwater getaway, a pillar of coral (so don’t forget the snorkel and fins), autumnal colour, an abstract painter whose style you feel you should recognise, but can’
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0189 - 2025.06 Alien Landscape 1
On an alien, unexplored planet with unfamiliar skies signs of life may be difficult to find. Scanning from orbit does not reveal everything, the ISS told us that, when the first astronauts looked dow
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0248 - 2025.09 Desert Dreaming
What, I thought, am I looking at? Am I dreaming? Is this real? The image in front of me is desert like, but not quite right. What do I remember? A camel comes to mind - the desert is not a place for
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0255 - 2025.10 Parliament
The Imperium Presidency came with great honour, as well as great responsibility. That is self evident, I hear your unsaid thoughts, but as your tour guide and historian, I suggest there is more than
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