Groogleman takes place in some unspecified future that follows the technological collapse of civilization as we know it. Young hero Dan Henchard possesses weller’s blood, an inherited immunity to the plague that is claiming the lives of many. A stranger named Joshua eventually joins Dan at his farm, and the two, along with another “weller,” Leezie, travel to a nearby village to help plague victims in need of assistance.
(from Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald’s fictional “weller”)
Captain Stelling, of the Zone Police, devoted his spare time to drilling the boys; Prof. Abbott, the botanist, undertook to teach them something of natural history and botany and took them on many a long tramp into the forest where a veritable wonderland was revealed to them; Dr. Johnson, of the Hospital Staff, gave them lessons in first aid and emergency treatment, and even Major Wilkinson, of the Engineers, found time to forget his chronic grouch against the world and took the enthusiastic “Scouts” under his wing and showed them how to build rough but serviceable bridges, how to measure distances and altitudes, how to make maps and how to accomplish a thousand and one useful things with only their hands and machetes for tools and with materials supplied by a bountiful tropic nature.
(from The Trail of the Cloven Foot by A. Hyatt Verrill, published in 1918)
2013 virus 3W4T transferred to human beings. A generation of children are born with flight membranes.
Children born a generation after are born with soft feathery underbellies. Aminah Coppe was the first of Croydon’s superheroes to develop avian skills without space-suit or flight-transmitter. Aminah grows into goth-angel.
‘Graphic Novel’ from Slow Fiction, Michael J. Weller (Home’Baked Books, 2010)
In 3World in 4Time autumn term begins at New Olympus University.
- Professor Wilson, what is 3World in 4Time?
- 4Time means simultaneously dilated durations of 3World and 3World means topographies of:
i) Golgonooza and Otherworld
ii) New Olympus City
iii) Eduard Mogilowski’s imagined universe re-imagined by Mike Weller.
– Thank you, Professor. Now I am a lot wiser.
Four bridges were built. North. South. East. West. Each bridge led to a Zone.
