Iskalde Grøss #3/1990

In "Tid er penger!", Seymour Watkins, determined to marry Helen only after he’s rich, gets an unexpected visit from his distant relative Zenob Watkins, who claims to hail from the year 2046. With a wild plan to fast-track wealth, the two conspire for Zenob to travel back in time and eliminate a key ancestor—setting off a chain of events that quickly spirals beyond control.

In "Den som venter!", Percy receives a strange plant from Alec, only to discover a tiny, eight-inch-tall girl emerging from it. After taking a secret solution to shrink himself, he spends time with her—until she passes away from old age. Grieving, Percy buries her, and soon after notices a plant growing from her grave. Realizing she was a plant in human form, he now waits, knowing a new girl will one day sprout from the flower.

In "Dårlig timing!", a middle-aged scientist rents a basement from a young woman, secretly building a time machine while growing close to her. As their romance deepens, his fear of their age difference drives him to alter time—only to emerge from the machine as an old man, discovered by a little girl in the very same basement where it all began.

In "Jeg skapte en... gigant!", a desperate man turns to scientist John Paulson for help after years of being mocked for his small stature. With the guidance of Professor Kohlvarb and the help of Betty, the experiment to enlarge him through pituitary manipulation spirals beyond control—leaving the once-puny man growing to an impossible, towering height.

In "Lyder fra en annen verden," a gardener pauses mid-trim as a professor interrupts, urging him to listen—to the trees, the flowers, the quiet life of the garden. The professor recounts how his invention lets him hear the silent cries of plants, each cut or bruise sending waves of pain through the living world, and warns that even a single snip could be a scream unheard.

In "Feilberegning!", a lonely man named Melvin finds himself utterly unprepared for the bizarre arrival of a package from the year 2952—no order, no explanation, just a De Lux Personal Harem Kit containing five beautifully dehydrated harem girls. What begins as a surreal twist of fate quickly spirals into something far stranger, as Melvin must navigate the unexpected consequences of a future technology he never asked for.

In "Reddet!", a year after a crew was dispatched to explore a planet in a nearby star system, they land on a world eerily familiar—only to find the wreckage of a previous mission, two years old, and realize the fate that awaits them. The silence of the alien landscape holds a warning, and the truth of what happened to the earlier explorers begins to unfold in chilling detail.

In "Som far så sønn," a young man named Raymond Williams Jr. finds himself suddenly thrust 25 years into the past, uncovering long-buried truths about his father’s sudden departure after his birth. As he navigates the fragile moments of his family’s history, he begins to question everything he thought he knew—until a shocking revelation reshapes his understanding of time, identity, and legacy.

In the cold silence of deep space, Guernsey and Benson are the last survivors of a doomed mission. When a meteor strike leaves the ship damaged, Guernsey is locked out by Benson—his former crewmate and the man he blames for the deaths of the rest of the crew. Trapped outside, Guernsey’s lifeless body becomes a grim reminder just beyond the viewport, its presence driving Benson to desperate action. But in a twist of fate, the corpse’s final act seals Benson’s fate, leaving him stranded in the void with no way back.