SofĂa lives a sad life, marked by the tragedy of unfulfilled dreams. While she experiences dreams in which her most intimate desires are manifested, she wonders if what she dreams is a way of contacting parallel universes in which she has been able to fulfill her deepest desires. The protagonist's questions have to do with happiness. Is happiness what you live, what you long for, or does it simply have to do with the way you face your own reality?
"Pigs Is Pigs" Butler quite surpasses himself in this story. The intricacies in radio are so great, and the changes occur so quickly that no one can afford to make a will wherein a radio provision figures. Once we thought of having a radio loud speaker installed in our coffin to keep us company and make it less lonesome. After reading this story we quickly changed our mind. The possibilities are too various.
Richard Arnold, a young man in England at the beginning of the 20th century who devotes his life to creating the world's first fully functional airship. After years of effort, he finally succeeds, but at the expense of everything else in his life, to the point that he finds himself broke and about to be thrown out of his home.
It was, Kirk thought, like standing in a gully, watching a boulder teeter precariously above you. It might fall at any minute, crushing your life out instantly beneath its weight. Your only possible defenses are your brain and voice--but how do you argue with a boulder which neither sees nor hears?