It was a balmy November morning when Mr Mosquito stretched his long legs for the very first time, and started to crawl out of his egg like a Houdini. He quickly swam to the surface, focused his big, dark eyes, and took a good look around him: “Wow, it’s the world!”, he shouted to himself, … Continue reading November Mosquito
Tonight I pasted into an AI prompt some excerpts from my cli-fi fantasy eco-thriller "A New Earth". Here's what it produced: Five minutes later, and the blue Northern Lights had entered John’s living room. Undulating slowly, sometimes speeding up, they hovered above him on the ceiling for a bit, before heading for the door. The … Continue reading A New Earth – (ILLUSTRATED)
(from the Untitled new novel) With unwavering tenacity and determination, the seeds continued to push with whatever strength they had against the infinite, pitch-black darkness of the heavy, moisture-laden soil up above. While their persistence and courage were admirable, the truth was that none of them had even the faintest idea of where exactly they … Continue reading To Believe
continued from previous “In fact, this wouldn’t surprise me at all. It would perhaps be the missing perspective in our understanding of life, and the way that our genetic code was put together in a disordered, yet purposeful way. All of this time science has been focusing on the sequences within our DNA that have … Continue reading A New Earth – Made out of Chaos
continued from previous She closed the notebook shut with a single, slow but decisive hand movement. She kept on staring at it for a few seconds, almost in a comatose state, as she tried to wake up from her daydream. How could it be that the entire world was sitting inside a notebook, in a … Continue reading A New Earth – Disaster Gene
continued from previous He turned his attention to Olivia: “Earth is a garden. Once you stop killing the weeds and allow everything to grow, you realize that no species was actually ever invasive or aggressive. They were all meant to be with each other. When you plough the garden, initially there is a little competition, … Continue reading A New Earth – The Memory of Extinction
continued from previous Olivia was about to go to sleep when Jonathan’s message notifications lit up on her phone screen. She opened the first message, showing thousands of purple jellyfish mesmerizingly dancing in slow motion in the brown ocean. There was no sound to the video, which made the image look even more hypnotic and … Continue reading A New Earth – Faster Than Previously Expected
continued from previous He arrived just in time for lunch. In fact, the rescue drone dropped him off directly at the end of the queue for the soup kitchen. John unstrapped himself, and waved goodbye to the robot. He heard a Trump deep fake voice yell “have a nice day!” – and the thing flew … Continue reading A New Earth – Have A Nice Day
George Tsakraklides 