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Micro-fiction 075 – Infinity Trap (Post-Apocalypse series)

There’s only one way to stop the robots in their tracks… Infinity Trap In the distant future, on a planet once called Kepler 62e long-colonised as part of by Earth’s original evacuation, and renamed Kane the forest covered surface had begun to resemble the decimated mother planet. Humanity quickly descended into the have’s and the have-nots, already defined by the …

Concepts | Being not Being

The core concept of ‘Being not Being’ underpins Jake Jackson’s sf and fantasy fiction. Alongside other notions of Time, and Will, it allows the exploration of the universe before the Big Bang event, in quantum fields and out beyond the limits of the expanding universe. An object can both ‘be something’ and ‘not be something’ (else). At a simple level a …

Only Connect: The Naming of Things: Part One

I’ve been painting most nights: acrylics, layer upon layer, broadly expressionist, abstract, intimate. But one thing troubles me: what do I call the paintings? You’d think it would be simple, but the ‘naming of things’ is not to be undertaken lightly. With its immediacy a painting seems to be different to a book, or a piece of music, and not …