Iskalde Grøss #6/1992

In "Snartur," Captain Donnel leads a crew on a 30-light-year journey to the star Pollux, placing them in suspended animation for the long voyage. When they awaken at their destination, they find the star vanished—its light, they realize too late, had been a 55-year-old echo from a supernova that occurred decades before their departure.

In "Langtur," Captain Donnel and his crew arrive at Pollux after a 30-year voyage—only to find the star already colonized by humans. Shocked to learn that a breakthrough on Earth had made interstellar travel possible in just two days, they confront the reality that their long journey was rendered obsolete by a scientific leap they never knew about.

In "Krypene!", a weary captain grumbles about his roach-infested spaceship, recalling a past encounter with a bug in his salad—only to find his worst fears realized when the ship crashes on a planet where giant, clothed insects rule. As the crew hides in the undergrowth, they’re scooped up by one of the creatures, only to be served as a salad for the king, who’s utterly horrified to discover the "ingredients" are actually sentient humans.

In "Slangen i paradis!", a newlywed couple’s dream honeymoon in space takes a sudden turn when Enid’s health deteriorates during flight, forcing them to land on an uncharted planet where she can’t survive another launch. While Lon returns to Earth to fetch a prefabricated home and supplies, he encounters a mysterious alien—only to kill it in fear, unaware of the terrible truth he’s just uncovered.

In "Rent bord," two amoeba-like aliens from the Solar Federation take human disguises to save humanity from self-destruction—by wiping it clean and starting over. After the female captures a man and returns to the ship, she grows anxious when her mate fails to return with his chosen human. Her dread deepens when she realizes the man she took was, in fact, her mate in human form all along.

In "En vanvittig ferd," a scientist named Rodney Simon, driven by a radical discovery in his lab, launches a rocket fueled by an unknown gas that defies Earth's gravity. His journey takes him not to the Moon, but to Venus—where he is met not by alien invaders, but by human-looking inhabitants who believe him to be insane. Trapped in a mental asylum on a world that doesn't recognize Earth, Simon must navigate a reality where his own truth is the greatest anomaly.

In *Framtidsflukten*, Dr. Brewster’s groundbreaking serum 129-A offers a way to freeze time—literally. When Lloyd and his lover use it to escape a painful marriage, they awaken five centuries later to a world transformed, only to find their long-avoided past has caught up with them in ways they never imagined.

In "Tapte horisonter!", Captain John Oxton leads a generation ship to a distant world, only to find that his crew, born and raised in the vessel’s sealed corridors, are utterly unprepared for the reality of life beyond its walls. The vastness of the open sky and the unknown planet below challenge everything they’ve ever known.

In the silent ruins of a world reduced to ash, Dr. Beard wanders through an empty first-class hotel, the last echo of civilization. Haunted by memories of choices left unmade, she’s startled when the phone rings—just once—before a voice on the other end hangs up, realizing too late it’s the wrong number.

In a world where the wheel is forbidden, David mourns the friend who paid with their life for defying the law. Now, haunted by guilt and the weight of a buried truth, he must confront the dangerous legacy of a machine that was never meant to turn.