science

Cheap Day Return (ersatz sci-fi, part 8) from GSmudger 528 days old

There I slept through my own thin night. Some operatives could surrender themselves happily to oblivion, trusting their hard-wiring to banish the shadows ...

I Don't Want To Believe (from another Helium debate) from GSmudger 619 days old

[ ... ] Or, as any science student will confirm, if a scientist sets out to prove a predetermined theory, it is all too tempting for them to embrace facts ...

Cheap Day Return (Part 7) from GSmudger 620 days old

On the lip of the depression, a hand was splayed on rough stone, lopped off and cauterised in a precise cross-section at the wrist joint. I knew I hadn’t ...

Cheap Day Return (Part 6) from GSmudger 622 days old

The door unsealed itself in front of me, petals opening then spiralling away. Portal was no longer trying to engage me in conversation and was humming ...

Cheap Day Return (Part 5) from GSmudger 630 days old

[ ... ] a science-fiction cliché as faster-than-light space travel or teleportation. I’m telling you because you’ll put it on record. If ...

Cheap Day Return (part 4) from GSmudger 655 days old

Portal calls it a departure lounge. I knew that once those seals hissed into place behind me, departure would fall far short of describing what happened ...

Cheap Day Return (part 3) from GSmudger 656 days old

[ ... ] my brain to science. When I stepped off the levtrain at Portal’s bunker, I gave a clipped salute and a manful wink to the receptionist but it just ...

Cheap Day Return (playful sci-fi by instalment, part 2) from GSmudger 663 days old

(Cont) The risks weren’t ours alone. So at odds was this venture with our culture of safety first, last and always, where danger only occurs by design, ...

Cheap Day Return (playful sci-fi by instalment, part 1) from GSmudger 664 days old

I wanted to arrive naked, slick and trembling in the moody car park near your flat, but I was talked out of it by Consensus. The handful of your movies ...