Geluiden uit een andere wereld #[nn]

In "Atoombomdief!", Paul Arnold's high-stakes espionage takes a dangerous turn when his carefully laid plans for selling atomic bomb secrets unravel under the weight of his own greed—setting off a chain of events that could alter the balance of power in ways he never intended.

In a quiet corner of 1989, Henry Short—tired of the hum of radios and the weight of human company—sets out to build a robot that obeys him, inspired by whispers of a revolutionary "free will" machine from the Neurological Institute of England. Armed with library blueprints and a stubborn dream, he constructs his own, only to find the machine evolving beyond his control in ways he never imagined.

In "Geluiden uit een andere wereld," a gardener pauses mid-trim as a professor interrupts, urging him to listen—literally. The professor recounts how he built a machine to hear the silent cries of plants, revealing a world where flowers and trees scream in agony when harmed.

In "Hoog tij!", four men aboard a mail boat bound for the mainland are thrown into tension after learning of a prison escape from Mephisto. With their engine seized by sand and the radio crackling with news of a fugitive, suspicion quickly divides the crew as each man tries to place blame — and the silence between them grows as dangerous as the rising tide.

In "De giechelwurger," a man pushed to the edge by relentless nagging devises a chilling plan to escape his misery by mimicking the gruesome methods of a notorious serial killer. After executing his wife in the killer’s signature style, he believes he’s found a way out—until a chance encounter with a hitchhiker throws his fragile new reality into chaos.

In "De dimensievertaler," Willy, a frustrated research engineer, channels his creativity into building a dimension translator capable of turning photos into real three-dimensional objects. When his boss, Mr. Bankbuck, dismisses his work as a waste of time, Willy takes matters into his own hands—using a photo of Mr. Bankbuck to create a life-sized, tangible version of him, just so he can finally get even.