After Ogham

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We were sitting around the campfire one night, speaking of this and that, and someone mentioned Science Fiction. One unsettling remark was that there is no Irish Science Fiction. "Of course there is." I insisted. "Name it." they said. Being ignorant, I couldn't. "H.G. Wells." I finally offered. "English!" they roared. "I'll write my own." I countered. "WHAT will you write?" "…about the past and the future. About ancient peoples, and Ogham, and mysterious powers. About 2157 A.D." "…and little green men?" "Not even one. Not one little green character." I promised. "It will be about cloning, genetic engineering, man made from scratch…" "All that happening within Ireland?" "Oh, there'll be other countries involved: France and England, the U.S.A., China, Russia, and events other than Ireland's. It will include space and planets, reversible-time spheres, impressment, politics, love, war, history, inventions, and the occult." They studied me a moment, then said: "Start writing, O. HAGEN. You write it; we'll read it." So I did…

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