When designer Andy Knight decided to post some of his artistic creations on a spoof 'Alien Artefacts' website, he thought he was just having fun with the gullible public - until government agents turned up. He was arrested, interrogated and threatened. They wanted his 'artefacts'. "The real ones " They didn't believe he had made them up. Knight's future went into a tailspin when they showed him a 60-year-old photo of an artefact almost identical to one he had dreamed up. And when a follower of his web site sent him a strange device for safekeeping, and was promptly murdered, Knight decided to...

Five short contemporary sci-fi tales. SOUL MATES A U.S. Green Beret in Afghanistan believes he has solved a riddle as old as mankind.... THOR Sometimes enough is enough. When there is no dialogue only one course of action remains... BRITISH DAYLIGHT PLC Can light be bottled, to be released at night? A harmless enough exercise, you would think, unless idleness and greed get in the way... MORPHIA A peaceful alien, who has no concept of sound, and to whom radio waves are but part of its visual spectrum, attempts first contact with another species... THE HUMILIATION OF STUDENT X When hypnotic...