April 25, 2008
A cruel way of making a mankurt, a captive man that forgets everything but basic activities and thus becomes an ideal slave of jurchen masters. A fresh raw camel hide would be put as a cap on the thoroughly shaven head of a captive. The slave with his hands tied and with a large wooden stock around his neck preventing him from reaching his head would be left in desert for several days. Once the hide would start drying it would shrink and bind to the head, thus making a hoop and "squeezing" all sanity out of the man.
August 25, 2007
There is no doubt that some UFOs are alien spacecraft. Moreover, the subject of flying saucers represents a "Cosmic Watergate" - a colossal government cover-up.
March 07, 2006
Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene, they had children which survived and married into a line of French Kings, the lineage continues today and there is a secret society based in France which has the objective of restoring this lineage to the thrones not only of France but to the thrones of other European nations as well.
November 12, 2005
Martians invade Earth, because they really dislike how they are pictured in science-fiction films.
When the government forbids imagination, a man fights back.
A man who hates noise decides to exterminate anything producing it.
October 15, 2005
A computer salesman receives a cryptic message on his computer screen. Later he receives the same message in a newspaper and on a lunch bill. He tracks down the source of the messages and meets a man who offers to sell him a robot replica of himself.
An U.S. president tries to reclaim the country after 12 drunk senators gambled it away to an Indian chief.
October 12, 2005
An astronaut is lost in an uninhabited, alien jungle on a far away planet in a completely parallel universe and with drums driving him insane.
May 08, 2005
A country where being happy is compulsory.
A student receives an invitation to attend the world's first and only Time Traveler Convention.
March 23, 2005
Adolescent guerrilla packs of specialized humanoids are routing the forces of civilized nations and ravaging the earth. When wholesale slaughter erupts, the battle continues underground where the survivors evolve into The Wild Boys, hordes of pitiless homosexual warriors who move in and destroy the cities.
The search for Albert Einstein's brains - finally found in a class jar, owned by a downhill scientist.
March 02, 2005
After a nuclear apocalypse, two different societies attempt to dominate the planet. On the one hand there are the Trackers, descendents of military personnel protected from the blast who have lived underground ever since. The surface is dominated by the Mutes, descendents of small groups who managed to survive the blast without taking refuge in bunkers.
A man is picnicking with his family by a lake. Then suddenly he wakes up in a horrible factory in the future. The family and the vacation were an illusion created to make the factory work bearable. Eventually he finds a way to escape and make the pleasant scene his own reality.
A disease has killed off most of the population of earth. The survivors decide to leave Earth, and leave behind a lot of robots. These robots built more robots, and eventually "evolve" into robots that can reproduce much as humans do (pregnant female robots).
People who've been living in caves for generations, in total darkness. They navigate by clicking stones in their hands to get echoes. Some of them have evolved some kind of infra-red sight. Some of them press their eyeballs to experience flashes of light.
February 17, 2005
Lake Atlantic, a narrow ribbon of stagnant brine ten miles in lenght by a mile wide, was all that remained of the former Atlantic Ocean.
A rocket explodes and the crew, five men, are thrown into space like a dozen wriggling silverfish, getting further away from each other, and with no other option than waiting for death.
A rocket lands on a distant planet inhabited by a dynamic, modern civilisation. No citizen of this civilisation pays any attention to the landing of the rocket, nor to the Earth man in it.
Fed up with his wife and his marriage, a man has a mechanical duplicate of himself made, to substitute him in some of his marital duties. Then he discovers his wife has substituted herself with a robot as well, probably a long time ago.
Fed up with his wife and his marriage, a man has a mechanical duplicate of himself made, to substitute him in some of his marital duties. Problem is, the robot falls in love with his wife and kills him.
December 28, 2004
Psychiatric help and insane asylums are forbidden, and the insane ones walk the streets causing and feeling panic.
Count Axel left his library and walked down the wide marble steps among the time flowers.
Surveillance has become so effective that every citizen has his or her personal spy. Every normal citizen spies on his or her spy as well.
December 02, 2004
Idiots rule the world. To occupy a position, one must pass a series of exams to prove one's idiocy.
October 17, 2004
In the future, people do not die once, but twice; the first time acts as a sort of warning. People who have already died once are, as a rule, wiser than people who did never die yet.
When people die, they don't go to Heaven, but to Mars; and there they just resume their lives, in a very similar situation to the one left on Earth, until they die again.
October 13, 2004
A beautiful Martian housewife starts having visions of spaceships coming from planet Earth to colonize her planet, and blue-eyed, fair-haired astronauts wanting to kill her husband and have sexual intercourse with her. She is a sort of Martian Pocahontas.
The human eye is redesigned, and now it can see, through the corner of the redesigned eye, other possible, parallel, alternative realities to the one that occupies its main field of vision.
October 04, 2004
There is a place where all centuries overlap, and where every night two armored knights are run over by a steam train when they try to kill it, thinking it was a fire-spitting dragon.
October 03, 2004
Fearful of a cataclysm that would leave no trace of thirty thousand years of civilization on Earth, Mankind decides to send off a spaceship into the infinite universe, containing the greatest achievements of those thousand years of civilization: the Bible, J.S. Bach music, a copy of the Mona Lisa, and Citizen Kane.
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