So, have a read of the story. It’s a clever one – a very clever one, blending the future with historical and non-Western sensibilities, and story within a story, or rather, a meta-story.

Nicely handled time travel story through the eyes of a coutourier. Time travel is the prerogative of the rich, and they are more than happy to spend lots of money to ensure that their costumes are a perfect match for the era to which they head. The fact that in doing so they are destroying their own world bit by bit (the butterfly effect – which in this world is removing all flora and fauna, with a subsequent plague of butterflies. There are some nice background details, and the story revolves around a junior seamstress who is able to observe the foibles of the wealthy elite.

The invasion of Copenhagen from sea of enormous mechanical war machines is viewed from a slightly detached perspective by a couple who have found each other on the internet, and are trying to find something in a hotel room to draw them together. The invasion flounders, as does their relationship, and in this world of instant communication, and a world wide web of all things being possible, a distance between people, and between people and events is apparent.