A collection of four science fiction/fantasy stories Golden Ghosts A science fiction tale spanning from the human extinction in 2050 to the suns transformation into a red giant. A speculative account of enormous geological, biological and ecological alterations. Species come and go, mass extinctions devastate the planet and the planet recovers, strange new intelligences appear and their civilisations rise and fall. The world has an exciting and dramatic new history because the humans disappear from it. Wigpunk Wigpunk is an eighteenth century vision of the future, the year is 1790 and the world of 1990 is imagined by Archie Archibald. It is a world of steamhorses, steamsnakes, steam whales and steamhawks. The brightly painted towns are connected by rails and cobblestone highways. The inhabitants of these towns live in colourful dwellings, work in colourful industrial mills and everyone wears a brightly coloured wig. The fields are grazed by hideous but meaty oversized cattle and the corn is cut with clockwork sickles. The alternative 1990 of Wigpunk is stranger and more vibrant than the real thing. Unrealities The pathetic John Smith jumps off a bridge and seems to be dead but he isn't, the pathetic John wakes up in a world of crystal cubes and robot peasants, he then appears on a planet of strange green things, and then he gets shifted through a series of surreal liminal spaces, this ends when he appears on an alternative history Earth, his final destination is the astral plane of the simulators. The pathetic John Smiths suicide isn't the end, it is the beginning of a surreal adventure. Islands There is a Super Earth very far from the normal Earth, this Super Earth is scattered with strange islands, these strange islands are scattered with strange lifeforms, these strange lifeforms live strange lives in strange landscapes, they eat strange food, live in strange structures, they have strange ideas and strange habits, the Super Earth is an abstract ball of strangeness.