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Posted on August 10, 2018August 9, 2018

Is the elderly scientist correct? Roy Sorenson on Arthur C Clarke

Following on from yesterday’s post, here is the answer from Roy Sorenson’s Cabinet of Philosophical Curiosities: “The elderly scientist is certainly correct. The reason is that any assertion of an…

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Posted on June 12, 2016

Perpetual Motion. Part 4 of 5. Nthposition, Sept 2010

Part 1 here.  Part 2 here Part 3 here . Full story here     Scene 9. A scene of explication With enormous fanfare, the Creative Online project, or CREON, was launched to…

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Posted on June 12, 2016

Perpetual Motion. Part 3 of 5. Nthposition.com Sept 2010

Part 1 here. Part 2 here. Full story here Scene 8. Not as long ago as most of the other scenes, with the exception of Scene 2. A Network Rail train from…

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Posted on May 4, 2016May 4, 2016

Inherit the Earth (part 2) Nthposition.com, December 2004

Part 1 is here Ten years from now Malcolm and Linda and the ones with no names, the old folk whom they picked up on the road, went down into…

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Posted on May 3, 2016

Our selves, alone. Extract 5 (and final) Nthposition.com 2010

This is the end of the story. Not too sure about the “reveal” at this distance. However of all the stories I have reposted here this is the one I…

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Posted on April 26, 2016

Our Selves, Alone. (extract 1) Nthposition. 2010

Rather than pasting great dobs of text here of my various stories, I have decided to either post previews with the full text elsewhere, or dividing them into parts, as…

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Posted on March 8, 2016March 8, 2016

“A Panoply of All Possible Futures” From “The Zahir” by Jorge Luis Borges

Next to the Anthony Burgess quote I previously posted, this is my favourite literary passage on money    Sleepless, possessed, almost happy, I reflected that there is nothing less material than…

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