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WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE
God frowned and considered his options. It would mean writing off countless millennia of hard work, but the smug grin on Lucifer’s face was really getting up his nose.
‘Blue in the corner pocket,’ he said and leaned over the table to line up his shot.
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
It was decided to introduce energy rationing for one day each week, before the fossil fuels ran out completely, but nobody in government was going to tell the American people that they couldn’t turn on the lights whenever they wanted to or drive wherever they wished in their gas-guzzling cars. To do so would mean suicide at the ballot box.
The aliens were a convenient scapegoat.
TREMORS
The crew of the science ship Antares watched with feelings of terror and awe as yet another huge slab of ice sheered off from the cliff face and crashed into the sea below.
They had been sent to investigate the accelerated break-up of the polar ice cap and now the cause was apparent.
The creature was moving along the top of a distant ridge, each segment of its body the size of a double-decker bus, and more than twenty such segments visible now as it hauled itself up out of its burrow.
Professor Cole estimated it was at least ten times as big as the creatures that had been found in New Mexico.
‘Global worming,’ quipped one of the deck hands, but nobody laughed.
WAR OF THE WORLDS
All of our fears about the red planet’s inhabitants had proved unfounded. The Martians were friendly. As a gesture of goodwill they had provided lavish funding to several projects, including Professor Rayner’s clinic. At last a cure for the common cold had been found and the germs that caused it were expected to be extinct within two generations. Mankind was as one in praising the selfless altruism of our alien benefactors.
ZERO POPULATION GROWTH
‘It’s the fault of the porn industry,’ concluded Professor Amies, head of the Special Commission set up by the government to investigate the problem. ‘For several generations now we have indoctrinated our young with the idea that the only proper consummation of coitus is for the male to ejaculate over the female’s face.’
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