Status Updates From Nova 2

I Tell You, It's True -
Interesting premise, technological progress from its infancy up to today's intricate inovations is and would probably always will be abused due to man's nature.

On The Wheel -
Feel like a commentary where we want a different reality compared to the one we are currently in. To be tired of the day-to-day repetitions and longing to experience something genuine.

Darkness -
Without warning nor explanation after the event, the world became dark. Forcing people to scrounge up what they can and survive in this all-enveloping absence of light and flame. A well-executed tale about the experiences of the protagonist, and makes us think about people and things we usually take for granted.

Now+n...Now-n -
A curious tale about work vs family.

'The Ergot Show' by Brian Aldiss

'And I Have Come Upon This Place by Lost Ways' by James Tiptree Jr.

'I Tell You, It's True' by Poul Anderson

'The Steam-driven Boy' by John Sladek

'The Old Folks' by James E. Gunn

'The Poet in the Hologram in the Middle of Prime Time' by Ed Bryant

'Miss Omega Raven' by Naomi Mitchison

'On the Wheel' by Damon Knight

'Darkness' by André Carneiro (trans. Leo L. Barrow) [brilliant!]

'Two Odysseys into the Centre: Some Notes Toward a Useable Past—Eighth Note' by Barry N. Malzberg

'Two Odysseys into the Centre: The Conquest of Mars VI' by Barry N. Malzberg

'Now + n ... Now - n' by Robert Silverberg

'The Sumerian Oath: A Polytropic Paramyth' by Philip José Farmer

'"East Wind, West Wind"' by Frank M. Robinson

'Zirn Left Unguarded, the Jenghik Palace in Flames, Jon Westerly Dead' by Robert Sheckley

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