(From the book "1st Tales of
Shatterred Earth")By
: Deborah Susan Jones : Editor One
of
the pioneering illustrations from the series of short
Science Fiction stories that appeared on the web decades ago that formed a prototype
electronic commerce project with Barclays bank in the
UK. At that time, it was impossible to trade in small
amounts of money electronically over the web and the
Bank was experimenting with the idea of a downloadable
electronic wallet for use with a credit card. Peter
wrote and illustrated the stories that were encrypted
web pages synced to the "Barclaycoin" technology, and it
worked!Tales
of
Shattered Earth - Edge of Unison "They came, they came in their thousands and thousands, possibly even the millions, erupting from dark space like pustules on the surface of a newborn baby or some aquatic disease that had bubbled up from the seabed to burst upon the surface of the World. Yes. This time we were ready for them, rather than wait for them to wreak their special brand of destruction and devastation upon us we went out to Dark Space. When they emerged from the yellow pustule that was their dimension's probe into ours, they assembled, they clustered, they sheathed the World, denied it light. So far it was the forests that had suffered worst though men and animals were certainly feeling the effects of a dramatic loss of light.
"It
was chaos . . . . . . . . . . "At
the end of the project the stories lay dormant about a
decade, then we began assembling them into a book . . .
. . .Deborah
Susan Jones
