I haven’t done one of these for a while, which is a shame. New readers (of whom the statistics seem to insist that there must be at least a few) may be unfamiliar with this. It is speculative fiction about an alternate reality; one in which Libertarians form (and promptly start dismantling from within) the [...]
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A tasty world (6)
Posted in A tasty world, tagged cctv, firearms, media on 15 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
ATW: here is the news (III)
Posted in A tasty world, tagged prisons on 19 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Alternate reality warning applies throughout
[From the Daily Wail]
Twitchers outraged at government prison plans
Bird-lovers and their favourite charity, the RSPB, are up in arms over the government’s plans for new prisons, as are the local residents of the Outer Hebrides islands near Scotland, where the prisons, housing the most violent criminals in Britain, will be built.
The [...]
ATW: here is the news (II)
Posted in A tasty world, tagged ATW news on 14 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Alternate reality warning applies throughout
[transcript from local radio news service]
Some disabled people are being left high and dry by the government’s welfare reforms. Herbert Arkwright, 53, from Prematurebury, contacted Smudge FM 109.2 and told us this story:
I were working in ‘t mill, and I were doing pretty well; they’d put me in charge of ‘t [...]
ATW: HAL self-immolates, locks out fire brigade
Posted in A tasty world, tagged privatisation on 11 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Alternate reality warning applies throughout
[From the Technology column of an online newspaper]
Residents of an exclusive Buckinghamshire housing estate were yesterday counting the cost of relying on the one human factor in their advanced estate security system.
The walled Ashbrook Estate, on which no house costs less than a million pounds, has its own fire service, which [...]
ATW: here is the news
Posted in A tasty world, tagged ATW news on 10 July, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Alternate reality warning applies throughout
[excerpted transcripts of news on Radio 4; copyright Messrs. British Broadcasting Company, Ltd.; sequence random]
Controversy continues to surround Mrs. Eileen Witherspoon, the eighty-five year old great-grandmother who shot four armed attackers in London last Tuesday, injuring them all, one critically. Mrs. Witherspoon, interviewed on this programme on Thursday, said that she [...]
A tasty world, Mr. Cornelius [Moorcock]
Posted in A tasty world, tagged A tasty world on 10 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am rather fond of the style of science fiction known as ‘alternate reality’. Moorcock’s superb Edwardianesque fantasies spring to mind, along with more modern works such as Gibson and Sterling’s The Difference Engine (1990).
Accordingly I propose one of my own.
The people of Britain, finally ‘Browned off’ with totalitarianism, have demonstrated catastrophe theory by unpredictably [...]
