* While reality generators may have maintained the last city on earth, at the end of time, while the multiverse collapsed all the way back to the present day; here there were other patterns; where their addictions still ruled their lives; where it was possible to disappear down any tunnel you chose, in bars called The Heart Of Darkness, Sharkies, The Walkabout, The 69ers, The Top Ten, The Happy Hippy, where any predilection was barred from its full flowering by remarkable self constraint. They giggled. There was garbage everywhere. The dust swirled up in storms from the potholed, unpaved roads, wretched smells drifted in the baking heat. Flies were everyhwere. Wherever he looked a beggar was approaching.
The Last Odyssey
The Last Odyssey
The Last Odyssey
* While reality generators may have maintained the last city on earth, at the end of time, while the multiverse collapsed all the way back to the present day; here there were other patterns; where their addictions still ruled their lives; where it was possible to disappear down any tunnel you chose, in bars called The Heart Of Darkness, Sharkies, The Walkabout, The 69ers, The Top Ten, The Happy Hippy, where any predilection was barred from its full flowering by remarkable self constraint. They giggled. There was garbage everywhere. The dust swirled up in storms from the potholed, unpaved roads, wretched smells drifted in the baking heat. Flies were everyhwere. Wherever he looked a beggar was approaching.