Homo sapiens: development is deviating from projections. With 10 billion Earth-years of galactic experience, the Intelligence, the ethereal presence led by the Energy Masters, discerns something special in this complex creature and its accelerating scientific capabilities.Their sub-processor and Earth project manager will surely explain. After 100,000 years with his client, the Homo sapiens, can 221 offer enlightenment?Jimbo, a hesitant hero, knew that Edinburgh, Scotland’s capital, was a great place to grow up and study science. Summer, 1996: pleasingly unexceptional, with good friends in a wonderful city. The recent creation of Dolly the Sheep gave him vacation work, cataloguing mathematical models. Happy days. Until his sleep is interrupted by the nebulous 221, obliging him to rescue the models from nocturnal thieves. A chase ensues, across and underneath the city, but armed gangsters are no match for Jimbo’s new night vision and his galactic minder, 221. The police are doubtful.221 tries to account for his client’s extraordinary progress, while the Energy Masters struggle from suspicion through bemusement to inconclusiveness. Fortunately, Jimbo participates, while he sleeps.A story of human development, described to our hero in 100 seconds. Meet an eclectic assortment of scientific wizards who created our modern world. Humour exists, galactically rare. 221 believes the human brain is the galaxy’s most complex machine, running on only 20 watts.Set in beautiful Edinburgh and the wider Milky Way.
Jimbo's Assumption, featured in The Table Read during September.Introduced by a great summary of the story, saying it “follows a student’s journey from ordinary life to cosmic adventure as he encou ........
Our human imagination seems boundless to me. Is it expanding? How to measure it? Do we lose older ideas and insights as we progress? My readers will know that 221 regards the Homo sapiens brain ........
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Herschel is a name ineradicably linked with the discovery, late in the 18th century, of an unrecognised object by William Herschel. Subsequently designated, Uranus, the seventh planet in our syste ........
Another sage from our recent past who pondered nature and bequeathed insights. A scholar who lived for 87 years with contributions in the 17th and 18th centuries. Now unknown to many and not always cr ........
As the story unfolds, so the character of our hero, Jimbo, emerges. Two facts that become clear are that he attended George Heriot’s, an iconic Edinburgh school, and has a passion for engineering. ........
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