Gil Galad – The John Walker Imaginarium
Coming late 2025
- The Traveller: Altered Destiny
‘In which we explore the vagaries of time; Parallel worlds where everything happens in tandem with everything else. However, our minds are ill-disposed to extract the truth behind the thin veils that blind us.’
Charles Peacock – Theoretical Physicist (The John Walker Imaginarium)
- Prisoners of Time
‘We all have time machines…those that take us back are memories and those that carry us forward are dreams.’
H G Wells
- The Watchers
‘The primary objective of a Watcher is to ensure the safety and security of the community, by whatever means necessary within the limits of the primary directive set out in Principles of Service’
The Watcher Manual; Section 1
4. A Chance to Speak
‘I last saw her on the outskirts of Durham…How she danced on those silken, silver threads I will never know: She was elegance and strength, and light as floating feathers…’
John Walker speaking of his loss of Hai-Yun (The John Walker Imaginarium)
5. Escape From York
‘We need to go, or you will not live out the hour!’
Victoria Blixen (The John Walker Imaginarium)
6. Dreams of Samira
‘Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine.
In one spirit meet and mingle. Why not I with thine?’
Percy Byshe Shelley from Love’s Philosophy
7. A Walk in the Woods
‘I thought all the trees were whispering to each other, passing news and plots along in an unintelligible language; and the branches swayed and groped without any wind.’
JRR Tolkien
8. Before Today is Yesterday
‘And we danced on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past’
John Wyndham
9. The Burghers
‘The future has already arrived; it’s just not evenly distributed yet’
William Gibson
10. The Fulling Estate
The Fulling Estate could not be said to belong to anyone. Although there are custodians of the land and the considerable property…there has never been knowledge of what one might call a true owner.
- We Are Scientists Not Philosophers
‘Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don’t know’
Bertrand Russell – Philosopher, logician, mathematician
- Darkened Embers of Suspicion
In the wastelands of memory, our past haunts us when all is dark and rested. We become robed in lost moments and half remembered phrases that twist and torment. Nev Tobin – (The John Walker Imaginarium)
- The Strange Long Night
“Believe what? That tomorrow night beneath the full moon, I’ll sprout hair and fangs and eat people? It’s bulls**t!”
David – American Werewolf in London
11. The Storm
‘Batten down and lock up! Sound the alarm! Storm coming!’
Citizen of Whitby (The John Walker Imaginarium)
12. After the storm
He raised his eye
Soul-smitten; for, that instant, did appear
Large space (‘mid dreadful clouds) of purest sky,
An azure disc, shield of Tranquillity;
Invisible, unlooked-for, minister
Of providential goodness ever nigh!
William Wordsworth from Composed During a Storm