Paul McDevitt
Magic beans
IT IS the kind of futuristic horror story that might lurk within a Cormac McCarthy novel. A post-apocalyptic landscape ravaged by radiation and three-eyed fish. No coffee.
That last, at least, could be the fate of citizens of Switzerland, whose government has in preparation for disaster, on the coarse grounds that “coffee … is not essential for life”.
Feedback is practically shaking with rage. And caffeine withdrawal. But mostly rage. Has nobody informed them that the only planet in the solar system that contains life is also the only one…
