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Throughout his reign the Emperor had matched his clothes to his big initiatives - military uniform for an armed conflict, track suit for the athletic push, overalls for his agricultural projects and business suit for his drive to make the kingdom a financial centre. One by one his efforts failed and in the end he decided that he had nothing left to show them. It meant one last change of clothes.Jake van der Kamp is a Hong Kong-based financial ...

In the 23rd century, fossil fuels are exhausted and Earth depends on energy from a swarm of solar power satellites. Conditions are harsh in the space stations that serve this network and some of the crews rebel. They move away from Earth orbit and build their own colonies, the 'Seven Dwarfs', meant for life, not labour. The real beginning of the Space Age has come at last. But Earth does not tolerate this defiance of its authority and mounts a...

A mouse who was on the spot on the night of the grand ball is not as taken as humans are with this classic fairy tale of mating success. You are a species that has lost touch with itself, he tells us. Your big brains have outgrown you. They have taken you into a world in which you are not really at home and made you strangers to yourselves there. Any animal shows more common sense in its daily life than you humans do. And don't tell me, he add...

In the movies a hyperspace jump to a galaxy far away is an everyday affair. In colder reality it takes an expedition from the solar system two millennia to traverse the ten light years to the star Epsilon Eridani. A few centuries into the journey the fleet loses contact with Earth and drifts along in space as the loneliest human community of all time. Rather than fall into despair, however, the colonists thrive and evolve into a unique human c...

Let us have a fair hearing at last for the Twelfth Fairy who has for so long been unjustly libelled with sending the Sleeping Beauty to oblivion on her sixteenth birthday. The Lady Melicia never denied that she played a part in this unhappy affair but, in her defence, has a question for her accusers: Do you really believe in fairies? This retelling of a classic fairy tale is set in a land with twelve fairies who confer miraculous gifts as proo...