Posts

Showing posts from July, 2025
Then Again: The Sixth Centiaeon   Earth    Short story, published 2005                                                                Doctor: 4 Written by Jim Mortimore. Takes place in New York, NY and elsewhere on Earth; the Doctor dates it as 50,000,000 CE. The Fate Of The Earth By this time, much of the Earth’s surface is glass. Its dominant species are giant ants, which farm large non-sentient food-animals descended from Tellurians. These survive until Earth’s final destruction in the far future, and beyond. The narrator thinks he can see New York beneath the glass, but he is not well educated and has possibly not left the city before in his life. I think h...