I have longed to share Vega with someone. The pure, breathless beauty of it, the bright star constant through the ever-shifting dusky halo- I have observed it many times from this planet that humanity has only dared hypothesise the existence of. In 1984, the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope enhanced by my work with heterodyne detection spectral-line ( Read more... )

Two days ago, the Capitol building in Washington was damaged by a bomb, apparently planted in protest of the invasion of Laos. The president loses patience and decides it is time to use the promised ultimate weapon that won him his election and send me to Vietnam. I am told I will meet with Blake, the Comedian, upon arrival. The government has ( Read more... )

I have angered Laurie again. I am following her furious path through Adrian's halls, calling after her, my feet barely impacting the marble. I know what I will say, how she will respond. I have heard the echoes of this argument from the moment I laid eyes on her, and still I am cursed to drive her to anger ( Read more... )

It is time ( Read more... )

In 1966, I kiss Laurie for the first time. I feel the loss of her eventual decision to leave me at the same instant as her lips place the second kiss like a signature over the first. She does not ask and I do not tell her. It seems she projects emotion onto my face, sees what she expects to see. She is beautiful. I doubt she would be interested in ( Read more... )

I am under the glass dome in Karnak, watching as the steel knits itself together and glass rains upwards, melds seamlessly. I am impervious to heat or cold, but Adrian is not. It is here we will have our conversation, as we have done before ( Read more... )

On the day we move into the Special Talent Quarters at Rockefeller Military Research Center, Laurie asks me to keep a journal. She fears I am losing touch with humanity, losing interest in her. She is right, and so I comply to her wishes. It is constraining to write of my experience in a linear fashion, but for Laurie's sake I will offer a glimpse ( Read more... )