@Ijon Tichy, Lem's Candide of the Cosmos, encounters bizarre civilizations and creatures in space that serve to satirize science, the rational mind, theology, and other icons of human pride. Line drawings by the Author. Translated by Michael Kandel. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book@@

The next ten to fifteen years are predicted by extraterrestrials to be very informative and interesting for humanity. We will see how our so-called «unshakable reality» will begin to be rapidly turned upside down before our very eyes. Already the world does not seem as solid and unbreakable as it once did. And very soon we will all be witnesses and direct participants in a worldwide spectacle of Chaos and Confusion. The foundations of all our cultural, religious, philosophical, and scientific Paradigms, which have served us so far invariably as an image of the «real» World, in a matter of years, will crack and begin to crumble before our very eyes. The reality of the New Age is within us, and main changes that we have to make must affect primarily our inner content, which, by freeing the Divine Light of our Souls from the millennia-old oppression of the Matter, will turn the mustiness and decay of our earthly cities into the unearthly glow of Beauty, which overflows the Cities of Light of the new, transfigured Earth.

In this book, the Pleiadians and Siriusians, who are the true spiritual Teachers of mankind, gladly share their knowledge with us, without which we, the earthlings, would not be able in the very short time that remains before the Transfiguration to come out of the many thousands of years of hibernation and to make the necessary number of timeless passages in the impermeable thickness of the Collective Consciousness, necessary for the so called «shift of the paradigm».

Tells about the events that took place from 20.07.1999 to 31.07.1999.

Tells about the events that took place from 07.07.1999 to 19.07.1999.

Tells about the events that took place from 14.08.1999 to 19.08.1999

Tells about the events that took place from 08.01.1999 to 13.08.1999.

Milky Way, thirteenth millennium of the stellar age. Human beings have long since left the surface of the Mother Planet, Earth, and so much time has passed they barely remember it. They have established themselves as the predominant form of life among the stars and all the while they expand, colonize and multiply undisturbed. At times they are at peace, other times they quarrel with one another in an endless strife of meaningless skirmishes. But one day the balance is broken. A terrible alien race, relentless and apparently unstoppable, now threatens to upset this delicate order and wash away over twelve millennia of progress and expansion. People in the Milky Way call them Herem, the Anathem… BOOK FOUR: DIARY OF AN IMMORTAL Captain Aaron Quietsea is ready to leave Earth. His mission: to embark on one of the very first interstellar travels in the history of mankind. He has no certainties, many doubts, and one great responsibility: to establish and lead one of the first human colonies in the galaxy…

For fifteen years, Tim Bradford has meandered round the quiet streets of his North London home, seeking out the ordinary and the extraordinary, the sublime and the ridiculous. A London Country Diary documents his wanderings – he attempts to rescue a deer in Clissold Park, talks to a magical old man in Holloway, breaks up a fight in Stoke Newington and has issues with foxes in Highbury. And that's just the beginning. All of life is in these pages. Well, some. OK, just a little bit. But with its idiosyncratic wit and charming illustrations, this book is a timely reminder that you can find beauty, humour and life, wherever you call home.