Mr. Barnstaple, is a journalist working for the newspaper "The Liberal." he, as well as a few other Englishmen, are accidentally transported to the world of Utopia. Utopia is like an advanced Earth, it has a utopian socialist, world government. The newly arrived Earthlings pose a grave threat to Utopians, who begin to fall ill. They have to be quarantined until a solution is found. The Earthlings resent this isolation and some of them start plotting to maybe taking over Utopia?
Humanity was forced to seek the stars. Destined to lead mankind into an ever expanding presence, the inhabitants of HD 85512 b have known no other rule than those of the benevolent machines. The same machines that brought their ancestors there hundreds of years before. But what is man if he isn't free? What is man without being able to choose for himself? Ask yourselves the same question and remember: Whom do you love the most?
A science fiction / mathematical fantasy originally written for the short-ticed Christmas of 2013 when Thanksgiving, the fourth Thursday, fell on November 28 meaning that Black Friday, start of the Xmas Shopping Season fell on November 29th giving only 26 shopping days until Christmas: the shortest possible Xmas Shopping Season. Oh, yeah. No grinches were harmed, indeed, none appear in the story. Originally on Tumblr under a different pen name.