Love, loss & competitive tree-climbing are preoccupying the hero of Coelacanth. This is a boy-meets-girl story with a twist, a tumble, several daring somersaults from the branches, & the discovery that love
- like the coelacanth fish that was thought to be extinct
- can lurk in the very darkest depths. In ” Not Everything is Significant”, we meet a biographer who is suffering from writers` block & a footnoter who is a stickler for detail
- together they`re pondering the meaning of a diary that arrived mysteriously through the post which appears to predict the future & prompts some very tricky questions about the nature of destiny. Finally, in ” Supercollider for the Family” a husband & wife each face a challenge: he to build a `supercollider` small enough for household use, she to complete a tightrope walk around the world. Their missions take us from a top-secret particle physics lab deep underground, complete with doors that go `ssh` & women in catsuits, to the vertiginous heights of a wire above a canyon, suspended like a slender silver thread between soil & sky.