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Micro-fiction 080 – Sacred Words (Echoes series)

An exploration of religion, mysticism, injustice and sanctuary, on a distant planet in a distant future. Sacred Words On a world in the far future a woman, Jaha, flees into the temple. The commotion outside halts for a moment as those chasing her contact their superiors for instruction. On this planet, some thousand years after the Great Expansion from OId …

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Micro-fiction 045 – The Good Doctor (Echoes series)

A visit to the the psychotherapist brings back memories and dreams to Alex Hunter, whose past rears up into the present. The Good Doctor It was late evening in winter, with the darkness already settled into the city streets, and it rained. Stripes like vertical spears rattled at the brickwork of the tall apartments and broke against the guardrails along …

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Concepts | Event Horizon

In the sf and fantasy fiction of Jake Jackson’s These Fantastic Worlds the event horizon is used in two distinct but inter-related ways. Firstly as a metaphor for imprisonment, and the impossibility of escape, secondly as an event in the physical universe where the action of its super-gravity on a photon pair can cause a momentary break in the conservation …

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Concepts | Field of Time

These are part of a sequence of illustrations to show the hubs, nodes and connections across a field of Time, a concept used in Jake Jackson’s forthcoming sf and fantasy stories in Echoes in Time, Fireflies on a Distant Planet, Fibonacci Rising and Graveyard Planet. Each node is a moment, a time event. The nodes are connected across two dimensions on paper, …