At seven fifteen a.m., his bedroom slightly colder than the vacuum of space, Joshua Joseph Spork wears a longish leather coat and a pair of his father’s golfing socks. Papa Spork was not a natural golfer. Among other differences, natural golfers do not acquire their socks by hijacking a lorryload...
Crisis SINCE ROCKET ATTACKS were an actual emergency, the Sergeant was back at Brighton House and sitting at the actual emergency desk when the call came in. He didn’t know what time it was because he’d been awake for long enough that the numbers on the clock didn’t make any sense. It was five, b...
Everything that can be is being digitalized, the weight of commerce and received wisdom (at least some received wisdom) asserting that this is progress, and very much for the best. Digital technology is going into everything: water bottles, car keys, pets and running shoes. You can wire your hous...
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THE ONLY PROBLEM concerns wheels. I was barely even aware of it, but Go Away Bombs have wheels on them. This is because each one is the size of a smallish car. We don’t fire them as much as drop them, out of cargo planes. The wheels have been sitting in a crate in an airfield somewhere west of he...
At seven fifteen a.m., his bedroom slightly colder than the vacuum of space, Joshua Joseph Spork wears a longish leather coat and a pair of his father’s golfing socks. Papa Spork was not a natural golfer. Among other differences, natural golfers do not acquire their socks by hijacking a lorryload...