Masson No copyright 2013 by MadMaxAU eBooks ~ * ~ CONTENTS Introduction by Christopher Priest Traveller’s Rest A Two-Timer Not So Certain The Transfinite Choice Psychosmosis The Show Must Go On Doctor Fausta Take It or Leave It Mouth of Hell Lost Ground ~ * ~ AUTHOR’S FOREWORD Now, when the frontiers of strict scientific hypothesis read like science fiction, but the conduct of global affairs reads like a set of fifth-rate films dreamt up by moronic scriptwriters, and humanity gets on with the business of running the Sixth Major Extermination of Species, I invite you to relax with the imaginations of a slightly more innocent decade. The White Queen enjoyed believing in six impossible things before breakfast; here you can believe in a dozen, a few of which may be possible, or at least secrete a truth: the chaos at the heart of language; the fires beneath us; the dimensional complexities of time; parallel universes; the fragility of civilization.
