Category: ZQ-287 Magazine
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BABYLON: EPISODE 005
BABYLON EPISODE 005 BY ALAN CLARK Babylon Wednesdays are the best days! Last we left off, Cin was in the middle of rushing Kim off the train for… more food? Probably not worth getting off five stations before their stop Elsewhere, Agent Cole with One World Intel arrives at the residence of Fraiser Hollow, renowned…
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THE PERSIAN QANATS
AN AGRI-CULTURAL PHENOMENON: THE PERSIAN QANATS BY RYAN DENNIS The Persian Qanats are an ancient water distribution system which pre-dates the Roman Aqueducts. They continue to be an engineering marvel up to the present day, and a shining example of sustainable agriculture. However, with the disrupting forces of social revolutions, high-output farming and loss of…
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BABYLON: EPISODE 004
BABYLON EPISODE 004 BY ALAN CLARK Happy Babylon Wednesday! So let’s see, where’d we leave off…? Ah, yes, here we are! So in the middle of laying a monster ass-whooping on a couple of KKs in the convenience store, the neighborhood shock troops have amassed outside to protect the citizens by blowing them to smithereens.…
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THE POLITICS OF CHEW-Z
THE POLITICS OF CHEW-Z OR, HOW TO FORGET POLITICAL REALITY BY ALAN LACERDA This short essay by Alan Lacerda, professor of political science at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte in Brazil, draws comparisons between elements of the novel The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick and the alternate political realities fabricated…
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BABYLON: EPISODE 003
BABYLON EPISODE 003 BY ALAN CLARK Welcome back. Last we left off, Dr. Kim Summers and her lawyer friend, Cin Mutsuragi—both of whom happen to be the leaders of the friendly neighborhood crime syndicate THE RAINBOW PRINCESSES (because, y’know, when society has finally reached its most maturely brutal and plutocratic form and you’re left to…
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