Peggle blast

Info about the game.

    (Peggle Blast) List of all obstacles in levels?

    The levels with the highest amount of each goal:

    • Eggs – Level 171 – 24 eggs
    • Gems – Level 84 – 20 gems
    • Pinatas – Level 91 – 8 pinatas
    • Gnomes – Level 182 – 12 gnomes
    • Frogs – Level 194 – 14 frogs
    • Portals – Level 136 and 175 – 4 portals
    • Bombs – Level 69 – 6 bombs

    Multiple goals:

    • Level 28 – 5 gems, 2 pinatas
    • Level 81 – 7 eggs, 6 pinatas
    • Level 108 – 7 eggs, 8 gems
    • Level 113 – 2 spiders, 7 eggs
    • Level 122 – 8 gems, 5 gnomes
    • Level 129 – 2 spiders, 2 portals
    • Level 130 – 1 spider, 5 pinatas
    • Level 140 – 9 frogs, 3 gnomes
    • Level 151 – 5 gnomes, 3 frogs

    Level by level:

    • 3: 2 eggs
    • 6: 3 eggs
    • 10: 2 eggs
    • 11: 4 gems
    • 19: 3 gems
    • 21: 5 pinatas
    • 22: 4 pinatas
    • 23: 7 gems
    • 25: 2 eggs
    • 28: 2 pinatas, 5 gems
    • 29: 5 eggs
    • 30: 1 pinata, 2 pinatas
    • 35: 3 pinatas
    • 37: 3 gems
    • 39: 1 egg
    • 40: 1 pinata
    • 41: 1 pinata
    •     46 – 1 bomb, “bang up job!”
    •     47 – 2 gnomes, “gnome trouble”
    •     48 – 3 gnomes, “flower garden”
    •     49 – 3 bombs, “windmills”
    •     50 – 15 gems, “blossoming”
    •     51 – 5 bombs, “ruffled” (shuffle level)
    •     52 – 4 bombs, everything sticky/gunked, “swoops”
    •     53 – no extras, two buttons to release grey/brown walls to blue/orange pegs “soft landing”
    •     54 – no extras, everything sticky, “sticky icky”
    •     55 – 4 bombs, “open and shut”
    •     56 – 4 bombs, 4 gems, “bombs and bling”
    •     57 – grey walls, no button “swingers”
    •     58 – 2 gnomes, 2 bombs “bouncy house”
    •     59 – no extras, swinging grey walls, no button “gears of bore”
    • 61 – 2 gnomes, “opening act”
    • 62 – 8 phoenix eggs, “applause”
    • 63 – no extras, very frosty “aria”
    • 64 – 3 gnomes, 6 bombs, “encore”
    • 65 – 7 gems, “opera house”
    • 66 – (pass level via 6 long shots) “dusk flight”
    • 67 – ? bombs : shuffle level, “improv”
    • 68 – no extras, 6 burning things, “curtain call”
    • 69 – 6 bombs, timer of 8 moves “overture”
    • 70 – 12 phoenix eggs, mezzanine
    • 71 – no extras, very sticky, “microphone”
    • 72 – 10 gems, “diva”
    • 73 – 3 bombs, “chorus”
    • 74 – no extras, “measured”

    Helpers:

    Bjorn.

    Jimmy.

    Pearl.

    Kablooey:


    Batrina:

    Danish minister for food doesn’t accept petitions

    Source: Esben Lunde afviser indsamlinger: Simpelthen fordi

    When asked why he doesn’t accept petitions Danish minister for food Esben Lunde Larsen replied:

    As a minister I don’t accept petitions simply because I don’t want to. I simply don’t want to.

    The simple reason is: Do you accept petitions with 10 signatures? Or with 10,000? When do you say yes or no?

    Others are welcome to accept petitions. I respect that. But from day 1 as a minister I’ve said that I won’t. 

    In one case a petition from Greenpeace was turned away.

    (Translation shortened version of original.)

    Falske venner mellem dansk og fagdansk

    Min (og Informationsordbogens) opfattelse er, at ligesom man mellem 2 sprog (fx dansk og svensk, se rolig) kan tale om falske venner, kan man observere det samme fænomen mellem almindeligt dansk og fagsprog.

    20/2-’25: Så har listen 25 punkter! “Dyr” er den nyeste.

    anekdote:

    • i dansk: kort, vittig historie om en enkelt (virkelig) hændelse fx brugt som illustration af noget i et foredrag
    • i videnskab: noget man bruger i videnskab, der kan føre frem til hypotese, test og videnskabelige resultater; som ovenfor, men ikke vittig

    begravelse:

    • den handling med tilhørende ceremoni at tage afsked med en afdød person, fx i en kirke eller et kapel (kan være bisættelse)
    • det at begrave en afdød person ved at sænke kisten med den afdøde ned i en grav, fx på kirkegården (kan ikke være bisættelse)

    bær:

    • lille saftig frugt uden kernehus – fx jordbær, hindbær og kirsebær – og blåbær, men ikke agurk, tomat og banan (frugt, grøntsag)
    • BOTANIK saftig frugt der indeholder flere frø – fx vindrue, blåbær, agurk, tomat og banan

    dyr:

    • levende organisme som kan bevæge sig, og som ikke er et menneske
    • ZOOLOGI organisme som tilhører dyreriget, dvs. er flercellet og lever af organisk materiale (fx andre organismer) fx regnorm, vandmand, sommerfugl, torsk, solsort, ko eller menneske

    eller:

    • i dansk: bruges mellem to eller flere sideordnede led for at angive at de er alternativer (alternativ = én af to eller evt. flere muligheder der gensidigt udelukker eller kan træde i stedet for hinanden ofte set i forhold til den mulighed der først byder sig til) (Det er tilfældet at P eller det er tilfældet at Q.) (I logik: eksklusiv disjunktion)
    • i logik: Det er tilfældet at P eller det er tilfældet at Q; eller begge dele.

    farve:

    • typografi, maling, daglig tale: sort og hvid er farver
    • fysik: hvid og sort er hver især en blanding af alle farver lys og det totale fravær af lys, omend rækkefølgen afhænger, om vi snakker addition eller absorption; de er ikke farver i sig selv
    • snooker: de 6 farver er gul, grøn, brun, blå, pink og sort; rød er ikke en farve

    firkant

    • plan figur med fire rette vinkler, dvs. et rektangel eller et kvadrat
    • MATEMATIK plan geometrisk figur der er afgrænset af fire rette linjer; polygon med fire sider fx kvadrat, rektangel eller trapez

    frugt:

    • sød og kødfuld plantedel som indeholder frø, og som i mange tilfælde kan spises som dessert eller mellemmåltid – fx æble, appelsin og banan, men ikke hasselnød, agurk og tomat (nød, grøntsag)
    • BOTANIK plantedel der indeholder og beskytter plantens frø – omfatter hovedtyperne kapsel (fx på valmue), nød (fx hasselbuskens frugt eller de små korn på et jordbær), bær (fx vindrue, blåbær, agurk, tomat og banan) og stenfrugt (fx blomme, fersken eller kirsebær), men ikke jordbær

    graf:

    • i dansk: matematisk diagram, fx en kurve i et koordinatsystem, der viser sammenhængen mellem to eller flere variable størrelser (Hvis x er 7, så er y 11.)
    • i matematik: I matematikken, og mere specifikt i diskret matematik og grafteori, er en graf en struktur, der består af en mængde objekter og et relationsbegreb mellem par af objekter. (Punkterne x og y er forbundet med hinanden.)

    hjerteslag:

    • hjertets pulsslag
    • hjertestop fremkaldt af fx chok eller en blodprop i hjertet

    internet:

    • verdensomspændende netværk af computerforbindelser der stiller en række faciliteter til rådighed, bl.a. elektronisk post, varebestilling og informationssøgning via hjemmesider for privatpersoner, firmaer samt offentlige eller private institutioner (hjemmesider, email, …)
    • den facilitet på dette netværk der via en browser muliggør søgning i elektronisk lagrede dokumenter, fx hjemmesider (stort set kun hjemmesider)

    kalorie:

    • måleenhed for energiindholdet i fødevarer, dvs. den energi der frigøres når fødevarerne forbrændes i organismen – egentlig lig kilokalorie (1000 kalorier)
    • FYSIK måleenhed for varmemængde og energi, defineret som den energi der skal bruges for at opvarme 1 g vand 1 grad

    kemi:

    • videnskab om stoffernes opbygning, egenskaber og omdannelse
    • OVERFØRT et eller flere kemiske stoffer der bruges til et praktisk formål

    klip:

    • stykke der er klippet ud af fx en film, tv-udsendelse eller avis (det her klip er 5 sekunder langt)
    • scene- eller billedskift i en film eller tv-udsendelse (der er et klip til 5 sekunder af noget nyt)

    kritik:

    • påpegning og evt. fordømmelse af påståede fejl eller mangler ved noget eller nogen (det her er dårligt)
    • undersøgelse og bedømmelse af egenskaber eller kvaliteter ved noget eller nogen, fx ved kunstneriske præstationer (det her er dårligt og det her er godt)

    manke:

    • masse af tætsiddende lange hår omkring hovedet eller halsen på visse større pattedyr, fx en hest eller en hanløve (ZOOLOGI: man)
    • ZOOLOGI forreste, opadskrånende del af ryggen på heste og visse kvægarter

    medfører:

    • i dansk: have som følge; være årsag til (Hvis a er tilfældet, så vil b også være tilfældet.)
    • i logik: Er sand i alle tilfælde, undtagen hvis den venstre af to operatorer er sand og den højre ikke er det. (Der er ikke nødvendigvis en “naturlig” årsag mellem a og b.)

    olympiade:

    • i dansk: olympiske lege
    • hos IOC: en periode på fire år (dermed alt andet end de olympiske lege)

    spiral:

    • i dansk: kurve, linje, bånd eller andet der snor sig, enten om en akse eller i stadig større buer om et punkt (DNA er inkluderet)
    • i matematik: en plan kurve, der vinder sig om et fast punkt O i planen, samtidig med at den fjerner sig fra (eller nærmer sig til) O (DNA er ikke inkluderet)

    station:

    • i dansk: en holdeplads for tog hvor passagerer kan stige af og på (inkluderer ikke steder, hvor der kun ekspederes gods og steder, der kun eksisterer af hensyn til driften)
    • jernbaneteknisk: et togekspeditionssted, der deltager i den sikkerhedsmæssige afvikling af toggangen som togfølgestation (inkluderer ikke steder, hvor der ikke er betjening eller som ikke deltager i den sikkerhedsmæssige afvikling)

    tal:

    • (tegn for) størrelse som man bruger til at tælle, måle og regne med, og som ofte angiver antallet eller mængden af noget
    • ciffer

    tekst:

    • i dansk: sammenhængende, meningsfuld følge af trykte eller skrevne ord i form af fx en artikel, en bog eller et brev
    • litteratur: Al tale, skrift, film, musik, billeder, kropssprog osv. osv. er tekst.

    teori:

    • begrundet forestilling, idé eller antagelse om hvordan en handling, et fænomen eller en begivenhed bedst kan forklares eller forstås (I videnskab: hypotese)
    • ordnet system af velbegrundede og veldefinerede antagelser som søger at forstå og forklare et eller flere fænomener eller samspillet mellem dem – især inden for en videnskab

    tv-program:

    • udsendelse (med fast sendetid) i tv, ofte sammensat af en række forskellige indslag
    • (information om) de udsendelser fjernsynet bringer inden for et bestemt tidsrum

    vers:

    • gruppe af linjer som udgør en enhed i et digt, en sang el.lign. (LITTERATUR: strofe)
    • LITTERATUR linje i et digt, med et bestemt versemål

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    Art and science fiction

    This is a list of short stories in the SF genre about art. Over time the list will grow.

    Isaac Asimov, “Light Verse”
    A succesfull artist also owns a robot, and insists that it not be touched.

    Paolo Bacigalupi, “The Fluted Girl”
    A human being can be reimagined as a musical instrument.

    J.G. Ballard, “Prima Belladonna”
    This shop has singing flowers. Especially the big orchid is good.

    Lee Killough, “Bête et Noir”
    Method acting benefits from a new drug and creates a new kind of theatre.

    Pat Murphy, “Art in the War Zone”
    The Artists Collective is attacked by an army and choose a novel weapon from the art of war.

    Christopher Priest, “The Discharge”
    A new kind of painting where tactile impressions from the art combines with your imagination.

    Alastair Reynolds: “At Budokan”.
    If you can imagine it, we can make it rock and roll.

    Gord Sellar: Lester Young and the Jupiter’s Moons’ Blues
    Jazz musicians are hired for a trip from Earth to Pluto and back in an alien spaceship in 1948. They learn to blur while they play.

    Norman Spinrad, “The Big Flash”
    We need a positive vibe about nuclear weapons, and we’ve got a band to deliver that vibe.

    John Varley: “The Phantom of Kansas”.
    Weather art. Protagonist is weather artist. Climax under show.

    Ubuntu

    Cats and science fiction

    Science fiction short stories featuring cats prominently. 2 persons (N and L) grade the stories from + to -.

    Isaac Asimov: Time Pussy
    Catlike animals have time traveling abilities, like being full before they eat.

    David Barr Kirtley: Cats in Victory (N+) (L+)
    War between animal people, who have forgotten their origin

    Elizabeth Bear: In the House of Aryaman, a Lonely Signal Burns (N) (L)
    An enhanced cat is also one of several clues in a murder case.

    Greg Bear and S. M. Stirling: The Man Who Would Be Kzin (N-) (L-)
    A not very cat-like people.

    P. J. Beese and Todd Hamilton: The Pride (N-) (L-)
    Not very cat-like man.

    Anne Billson: My Day by Jones (L-)
    Alien, as seen from the cat’s POV.

    Brenta Blevins: Housekeeping, 100 XP (L)
    How to fix a smart, catsitting house.

    Damien Broderick: The Beancounter’s Cat (N+) (L)
    A talking cat in a magical world, or is it?

    Fredric Brown: Mouse (L) (N+)
    Bill has a cat, and access to the body of a space mouse.

    Edward Bryant: Jade Blue (N) (L)
    A new invention, and a cat.

    Tracy Canfield: I Know My Own & My Own Know Me
    Humans without language. An uplifted cat. Equality for uplifts.

    Terry & Carol Carr: Some Are Born Cats (L+)
    That weird cat might be an alien?

    Arthur C. Clarke: Travel by Wire!
    Inventing teleportation. One of the “guinea pigs” is a cat.

    Arthur C. Clarke: Who’s there (L+) (N)
    Boring mission, into the space suit. But wait, something’s wrong!

    Judith R. Conly: Tales of a Starship’s Cat (L) (N-)
    The space ship gets a new cat.

    Margaret Curelas: The Cow’s in the Meadow, the Blood’s in the Corn
    When people keep going into your farm and slitting the throats of cows, maybe a cat is a good solution.

    Philip K. Dick: The Alien Mind (L+) (N)
    The cat fiddles with the steering wheel of the space ship, and the man gets angry.

    Marianne J. Dyson: Europa’s Survivors (L)
    An astronaut’s health is monitored by a robot cat.

    Melanie Fletcher: Lusts of the cat queen (L-) (N)
    Not very much to do with cats.

    Carl Frederick: The Spacemice Incident (N-) (L-)
    Robot cat, peripheral.

    Eduardo Gallego & Guillem Sánchez: I Thought I Saw a Pussy Cat (L-)
    The computer is shutting down.

    Ursula Le Guin: Schrödinger’s Cat (N) (L)
    The world is dissolving; there’s a cat and a box.

    J. U. Giesy: Zapt’s Repulsive Paste (N-)
    Cat and anti gravity, peripheral.

    Karen Haber: On the Tip of a Cat’s Tongue (L-)
    Whodunit, cat not central.

    Peter F. Hamilton: The Forever Kitten (L-)
    It is not essential that the cat is a kat.

    Robert A. Heinlein: Ordeal in Space (L+) (N+)
    You can’t have a space man, who’s afraid of heights.

    Carrie Hughes: Do Robotic Cats Purr in Space?
    ?

    Alexander Jablokov: Blind Cat Dance (L-)
    Predator = puma.

    Kij Johnson: Schrodinger’s Cathouse
    No cats.

    Naomi Kritzer: Cat Pictures Please (L)
    This AI loves cat pictures.

    Mercedes Lackey: SKitty 1, SKitty (L+)
    A man and his telepathic cat in the local space port. The locals have “mice”, but no “cats”.

    Mercedes Lackey: SKitty 2, A Tail of Two SKittys (L)
    Establish local cat teams.

    Mercedes Lackey: SKitty 3, SCat (L)
    SKitty gets a boyfriend, but where did he come from?

    Mercedes Lackey: SKitty 4, A Better Mousetrap (L)
    8 new kittens.

    Mary Soon Lee: Prime Development Opportunity: Dirt (L-)
    How a real estate agent would describe Earth, including the cats. The cats aren’t central.

    Sharon Lee: A Matter of Ceremony (N+) (L+)
    It is something very special to be bonded to a cat.

    Yoon Ha Lee: The Starship and the Temple Cat (L-)
    Ghost cat on a space station.

    Fritz Leiber: Ship of Shadows (L-) (N-)
    The half blind Spar works in a pub, and takes care of the new cat, Kim, who talks and chases mice.

    Fritz Leiber: Space-Time for Springers (N+) (L+)
    Cat genius analyzes the world.

    Glynne MacLean: Vienese Meow (N) (L+)
    Schrödinger, from cat’s POV.

    Anne McCaffrey: Duty Calls (N-) (L-)
    Not very cat-like lady.

    Michael McCarty, Mark McLaughlin: Night of the Squealers (L-)
    Some very aggressive monsters exit a spaceship and run into a group of cats.

    Ian McDonald: Vishnu at the Cat Circus (N-) (L-)
    There are cats, but they aren’t very related to the plot.

    Sean McMullen: Mother of Champions (N+) (L+)
    Big cats intervene, when humans get stupid.

    Paul Melko: Dysfunctional Family Cat (N+) (L+)
    Everybody’s allergic to the wonderful cat.

    A.R.Morlan: The Hemingway Kittens (L?)
    2 bookstore cats seem very intelligent and have too many toes.

    Andre Norton, All cats are gray (L+)
    Is there a ghost, and can the cat do something about it?

    Andre Norton and Dorothy Madlee, Star Ka’ats 1-4 (L) (N-)
    2 children travel with telepathic cats to various adventures on other planets.

    Jody Lynn Nye: Virtually a Cat (L+) (N+)
    VR cats.

    Jody Lynn Nye: Well Worth the Money (L+) (N)
    A new kind of space ship is to be tested, by 3 men and 1 cat.

    Sarah Pinsker: La Mer Donne (L+) (N+)
    A journalist covers the meeting between a small town and a storm, via avatar. A kitten wants to be included.

    Hannu Rajaniemi: His Master’s Voice (L) (N)
    Uplift, cloning, mind copying. And a cat and a dog trying to save their master.

    Cat Rambo: Legends of the Gone
    3 robot cats in a post apocalyptic world. Cats not central.

    Cat Rambo: Vocobox
    Cat gets voice and a little intelligence. Focus on the owner.

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch: Chimera (L+)
    Not being appreciated as a cat is hard enough, but it gets even harder when you’re more intelligent, more like a human being.

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch: What Fluffy Knew (N+) (L+)
    Only Fluffy knows about the aliens.

    Saki: Tobermory (N+) (L+)
    The talking cat also solves crimes.

    Robert Sampson: Feline Red (N-) (L)
    What to do with all them space cats?

    Pamela Sargent: Out of place (L+)
    Suddenly people can hear the thoughts of aninals. Scientists look into it, without finding an explanation (before the end of the story). Protagonist owns a cat, playing a big part, but there are also a lot of other animals.

    John Scalzi: The Other Large Thing (L)
    The humans bring home a robot, a servant for the cat.

    John Scalzi: Three Robots Experience Objects Left Behind from the Era of Humans for the First Time (L+)
    Robots visit a city after the apocalypse. A cat joins them.

    Cordwainer Smith: The Ballad of Lost C’mell (N+) (L)
    A cat girl, trying to gain rights for animal people.

    Cordwainer Smith: The Game of Rat and Dragon (L+)
    Our only defense against the enemy is teams of human and cat.

    Ian D. Smith: No Talking Cat Stories (L)
    Talking and thinking cats. The narrator is a cat.

    Rebecca Stead: Plan B
    50 families aren’t what they appear to be.

    Theodore Sturgeon: Helix the Cat (N-)
    An inventor plans to move a soul without a body into a cat.

    Michael Swanwick: The Little Cat Laughed to See Such Sport (L-)
    Cat woman, but not central.

    E.J.Swift: The Endling Market (L-)
    There are buyers for the last in a species, like a snow leopard. Could be any endangered animal.

    Judith Tarr: Made of cats (L+)
    The aliens are invading, again; luckily there’s a cat.

    Rajnar Vajra: Progress Report (L-) (N-)
    The cats aren’t true cats and not very cat like.

    A. E. van Vogt: Black Destroyer (L-) (N-)
    Not very cat-like animal.

    Sage Walker: Hunting Mother (L+)
    Half human, half cougar. Colonizing a planet. Mother is dying.

    Ralph Williams: Cat and Mouse (L-)
    There’s a cat, but it doesn’t contribute.

    Robert Moore Williams: Thompson’s Cat (N+) (L+)
    Space mystery from 1952, the cat saves the day

    Clare Winger Harris: The Evolutionary Monstrosity (L-)
    Cat is subject of fast evolution. Didn’t have to be a cat.

    Gene Wolfe, The Cat. (L+)
    Cat is transmogrified, and then “haunts” the place.

    Not SF:

    Italo Calvino: Autumn: The Garden of the Stubborn Cats
    Fantasy. (The cats own a house.)

    David Drake: Bullhead
    Fantasy

    M. J. Engh: The Tail
    Fantasy

    Esther M. Friesner: The Cat Bell
    Fantasy

    Kij Johnson: The Cat who Walked a Thousand Miles
    Fantasy

    TCA Lakshmi Narasimhan: Clay Cast Cats
    Fantasy.

    Jenn Reese: The Right Number of Cats
    Fantasy.

    Mike Resnick: Travels with my cats
    Magic realism.

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch: Scrawny Pete
    Crime story.

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch: Strays
    Crime story.

    Theodore Sturgeon: Helix the Cat
    Fantasy.

    Adrian Tchaikovsky: Not a Cat Person
    Fantasy/horror.

    Not about cats:

    Carl Frederick: Extra Cheese for the Laboratory Mouse
    No cats.

    Carl Frederick: We Are the Cat (N-) (L-)
    Schrödinger.

    Nalo Hopkinson: The Reverse Cheshire Cat

    Terra LeMay: Shrödinger’s Pussy
    Schrödinger.

    Books:

    Pet Plague 0 – Altered Humans

    Religion and science fiction

    Short stories containing religion.

    Isaac Asimov, “Reason”
    This robot creates a new religion.

    Isaac Asimov, “The Mayors”
    A scientific culture can tame a more primitive one, claiming science is actually religion.

    David Barr Kirtley, “Cats in Voctory”
    The memories of the past have turned into a religion.

    James Blish, “A Case of Conscience”
    Is this planet paradise?

    Anthony Boucher, “The Quest for Saint Aquin”
    A priest is looking for the body of a dead saint. Meanwhile a robot ass asks him about his faith.

    Ray Bradbury, “The Fire Ballons”
    MIssionaries come to Mars to convert the local people, if it’s possible. Maybe Christ needs to look like a blue sphere here.

    Jonathan Brand, “Encounter with a Hick”
    My father is in a company where they create worlds, and he created Earth in 6 days.

    John Brunner, “Judas”
    An allegory about Judas.

    Ted Chiang, “Hell Is the Absence of God”
    Christian. Belief isn’t necessary, as angels etc are clearly visible. However love is necessary, if you want to go to heaven.

    Arthur C. Clarke, “The Nine Billion Names of God”
    This religion believes, that the world will end when all the names of God have been written down.

    Arthur C. Clarke, “The Star”
    The supernova of this star has religious significance to us.

    Greg Egan, “Oceanic”
    This planet was colonized thousands of years ago. Now the story of that colonization only survives as religion. The story also illustrates how religion and science are 2 different ways of thinking.

    Costi Gurgu, “Angels and Moths”
    An encounter with an alien race suddenly requires “a man without faith”.

    Harry Harrison, “The Streets of Ashkelon”
    Teaching aliens Christianity.

    Robert A. Heinlein, “If This Goes On…”
    USA is super Christian, and a pious guard is shocked to learn the truth about the Prophet and the virgins.

    Damon Knight, “Shall the Dust Praise Thee?”
    “God arrives on Earth, ready to inflict the Day of Wrath on mankind, but finds that all life has already disappeared.”

    George R.R. Martin, “Song for Lya”
    Is a local religion an advanced group mind, or just a complicated way to commit suicide?

    George R.R. Martin, “The Way of Cross and Dragon”
    A local version of Christianity has a Saint Judas and dragons.

    James Morrow, “Auspicious Eggs”
    Births are few, far between and declared holy by the Catholic church. Priests help in this endeavour by drowning children, who will never become parents anyway. Do you know any more?

    Lester del Rey, “Evensong”
    “It details the capture of a being, identified at the end of the story as God, by Man, which has usurped God’s power.”

    Mercurio D. Rivera, “Missionaries”
    Sincere faith finally attracts an alien.

    Norman Spinrad, “Deus X”
    Uploaded people and artificial intelligences are common. The Catholic church has to decide whether these entities have souls.

    H.G. Wells, “The Lord of the Dynamos”
    I tell you, this piece of machinery is God.