THE GREATER REALITY AREA

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cold war

A collection of 6 issues

AN ENCOUNTER WITH THE BLACK VOLGA

It was after three in the morning in Chicago, probably a Thursday, when that vintage Soviet car pulled up alongside me, its exhaust sweet with sulfur. I knew the old tales from Eastern Europe during the Cold War: the Black Volga swallowed up those wandering alone at night, and visited

FOR NO EYES ONLY

CROW'S FOOT

In the mid-20th century, humanity exhibited a strange habit of ceding even its leisure activities to machines. Following a prophecy by Alan Turing, chess-playing computers began proving their ability to defeat even professional human opponents. A number of apocalyptic scholars iterated on these designs, building increasingly competitive chess

DEAD HAND

After a tornado struck Cincinnati in 1974, Sears floor manager Joe Fishbourne attempted to call his ex-wife from a downtown payphone with the excuse of checking whether or not she was okay. When he opened the attached phonebook, however, his attention was diverted to the unusual name “Philistine Causeway,

KLAXON AND CHRYON

THE TOMB OF THE LAST PRESIDENT