The Time Dweller

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Tales of other worlds, other dimensions - strangely beautiful with rich surrealistic landscapes. Tales of doom, despair, horror, of dazzling invention and inspired genius. Including:

ESCAPE FROM EVENING: one man finds that there is only one, ironical escape in a sad dying world.

THE MOUNTAIN: the two last men on earth search for the last woman.

THE GOLDEN BARGE: what did a single murder matter when the golden barge sailed slowly onwards?

CONSUMING PASSION: a tale of a pyromaniac with a chilling difference.

THE PLEASURE GARDEN OF FELIPE GITTARIUS: what was a Roman doing in Berlin; found strangled in a garden of strange living plants?

DUSK HAD COME to the universe, albeit the small universe inhabited by Man. The sun of Earth had dimmed, the moon had retreated and salt clogged the sluggish oceans, filled the rivers that toiled slowly between white, crystalline banks, beneath darkened, moody skies that slumbered in eternal evening.

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