By Bruce Stirling
Published Wednesday 14 January 2009
The crush of bodies seeking shelter down in Turbine Hall drove me up to the roof for air. That’s when I saw her. Just after midnight, a girl no more than twelve emerged from the rain and stood before The Family, a bronze sculpture overlooking the Thames. Making sure she was unobserved, she climbed onto [...]
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Tags: abstract, dystopia, family, hall, rain, sculpture, turbine, weeds
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By Johann Carlisle
Published Friday 2 January 2009
As she walked along the narrow bridge, her sodden hair hanging in wiry knots around her neck, she became aware with a faint irritation behind her eyes that a handful of consoles across the metropolis were already tuning into Medusa’s widecast channel. She blinked, trying to hold it down; a peak-time ratings spike could lead to [...]
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Tags: earth, entertainment, flooding, future, ghosts, sculpture
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