She drops everything, goes to the spum and
tries to relax. As always, she enjoys how her mental tensions
are relieved by energetic programmes and her body is oriented
along the meridians that run through it. She activates the beam
several times, gets herself cleansed and feels well rested as
she finally goes to the middle box. She pours herself a drink
and switches the animation screens on. She sits around, lost in
thoughts. She keeps asking herself how all of this could
happen. What was it? "You feel light and beautiful and
happy while you are standing on ruins. No matter how terrible
everything is, the only thing that basically counts is your own
state."
Text excerpt
Ursula Hentschlaeger
Martscherie
or: Live in Temptation
SF-Novel, 1993
With illustrations by
Astrid Esslinger
Research at the space station 7FK12
focuses on a field that has hardly been dealt with so far: the
materialisation of persons. The seemingly ideal living
conditions are deceptive: several people are killed. The spum,
a means of restoring emotional balance, is no longer capable of
re-instilling harmony in people. To survive, they have to
embark on the search for themselves. This is the only way to
counteract the sudden chaos of their own actions and solve the
mystery around the murders at the station.
Vienna: Triton 1993
