Category: a-book

1 THE ULTIMATE ENGLISH VICTORY London, June 21st, 2138 LONDON WAS WAKING up to another day dominated, as usual, by the world’s leading organisation, the omnipotent and ubiquitous wallpad ORANGE corporation (wallpad always in lowercase and ORANGE always capitalised) … The lead newsreader on the internet’s most popular news channel, wallpad channel WP1, allowed a gloriously superficial smile to stretch cheesily...

1 KING TRUMP’S INCREASINGLY UGLY TIMELINE TRUMP’S RISE TO dominance was the victory of the one over the many; that is to say, of Trump himself over everybody else. Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he thrust a rusty iron knife down the throat of everyone else who stood in his path on his way to gaining complete...

  1 THE UNPERFECT COG IN THE PERFECT MACHINE THE SCORCHING SUN beat down mercilessly on Newer York from the perpetually coloured iron-grey sky. Usually a thick blanket of smog covered the city, but today was a Perfect sunny day. Perfect with a capital “P”.  Perfect: A state of being or doing that is exactly as nature intends for humans...

1 THE HIGH READER THE PLANET FICTION had no accompanying sun, yet its entire surface was bathed in a bright light that was somehow natural and indistinguishable from a keen sunlight. Huge purple leaved trees, tall and springy and bending gracefully as if in a gentle breeze, dominated the planet’s surface, yet there was no atmosphere. The trees looked as...

  1 THE DAYDREAMER JENNY STARED AT THE POSTER of the boy. What schoolgirl wouldn’t? He was very handsome. His pale-blue eyes gazed lovingly back at the lime-green eyes of the royal blue school-uniformed mass of infatuation. Jenny. Jenny Sullivan. Jenny in a dream. In no time at all, Jenny’s mind wandered off to a far distant paradise … There they...

  1 ROSE IRIS LAVENDER ROSE IRIS LAVENDER walked with a wiggle and a waggle, not a girl of over-confidence but one simply full of life. Her mind soared free as a bird in a bright summer sky. She would swoop and glide, under and over, around and between her fresh and often original ideas, until she had finally exhausted...

  1 EXCITING NEWS! “MUM!” SHOUTED SALLY MUNKTON between quick breaths as she exploded into her terraced house. She had run all the way home from school without stopping despite the strap of her school shoulder bag sawing into her neck. Meanwhile, Mrs Munkton hardly flinched at the familiar heavy slam of the front door as she sat in the...

  1 EXCITING NEWS! “MUM!” SHOUTED SALLY MUNKTON between quick breaths as she exploded into her terraced house. She had run all the way home from school without stopping despite the strap of her school shoulder bag sawing into her neck. Meanwhile, Mrs Munkton hardly flinched at the familiar heavy slam of the front door as she sat in the...

1 FINDING SYLVESTER’S SECRET PASSAGE AS THEY MARCHED excitedly along the stone-walled hallway of the wing, Tim asked, “Sylvester? Have you ever tried to find the secret of the Royal Way?” “Ah yes, young man. I have not found it yet. But it is here somewhere—you can be sure of that. Finding it is all I live for!” said Sylvester...

1 OH BROTHER! BEFORE I TELL you about the crazy and incredible adventure my brother and I recently stumbled into, I think I had better just say a word or two about him. His name’s Gerald and he thinks of himself as a great writer. No doubt, he would believe that he should be writing you this story. But I...

GO TO EACH STORY FOR ITS OPENING CHAPTERS:   THE NEED FOR CONSCIOUSNESS Follow the story of a desperate one-man operation to seek out and deactivate a robot on a distant planet, a robot believed to have murdered an entire human colony. A planet with no indigenous animal life but plenty of indigenous and extremely lethal plant life. A great...

1 THE PLANET OF RAIN AND FLORA “DAMN RAIN!” HOWLED Charlie Thompson, as he trampled and squelched a path cautiously through an open stretch of alien land covered in what looked to him like blue lettuce plants. He cut quite a forlorn figure in his grey space-security-agency uniform as he toiled beneath the cruel rain. And the rain fell. And...

  1 SEEKING WATER SOPHIE HAD RUBBED anti-dazzle tanning cream on every part of her exposed polished metal skin. Otherwise she would blind her grandfather and be easily spotted from miles distant, such was the power of the dazzling overhead fiery sun. “We’re running pretty low on water, Gramps,” said Sophie, as she and her grandfather continued to struggle across...