John Skein, a communicator who telepathically facilitates meetings between minds, suffers a
mental overload that causes him to experience stressful flashbacks and flashforwards, some of
which lead him to seek a healing creature in the purple sands and blue-leaved trees by an
orange sea under a lemon sun.
Time is an ocean, and events come drifting to us as randomly as dead animals on the
waves. We filter them. We screen out what doesn’t make sense and admit them to our
consciousness in what seems to be the right sequence.
DEBUT
“In Entropy’s Jaws,” in Infinity Two, edited by Robert Hoskins (Lancer
Books, 1971).
VARIANTS
Debut. “In Entropy’s Jaws,” in Infinity Two, edited by Robert Hoskins (Lancer Books, 1971).
Time is an ocean, and events come drifting to us as randomly as dead animals on the
waves. We filter them. We screen out what doesn’t make sense and admit them to our
consciousness in what seems to be the right sequence.
1 English variant