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It´s a 1970s school playground at an English Comprehensive with concrete and white paint indicating where basketball and soccer equipment can be used. The schoolchildren are busily plaguing each other while a small knot of more knowing adult seeming youths gather together in a tight band and begin chanting, `We won the war in nineteen fifty-four.` One of the boys tries to make a correction, `Shouldn´t that be nineteen forty-five? Nazi Germany was defeated in 1945, wasn`t it? The Second World War? Nineteen thirty-nine to nineteen forty-five?´ The chant goes on, and on with little or no variation. The smallest boy in the playground knew a different story, but he wasn´t telling. Instead, he cast his mind back to a time before, a time when he´d been safe and happy, a place in which he´d been cared for by tall blonde men and women who one day told him he was going to a place called Earth.

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Bright, Robin
Robin Bright wrote a doctoral thesis at Hull University, England, `Jungian Archetypes in the work of Robert A. Heinlein`, 1992, which was published in 2018 as Self Begetting Ouroboros: The Science Fiction of Robert A. Heinlein. SF writer, ´All For Naught Orphan Ufonaut´ in Shelter of Daylight, Sam´s Dot Publishing, 2010.

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