GEODESIC GNOME

GEODESIC GNOME

GEODESIC GNOMEMustus aqueductus RANGE: The Geodesic Gnome’s range is functionally determined. Depending upon his needs, abilities, and the ground and climate conditions, he can be virtually anywhere. Design, the prime concern of the Geodesic Gnomes, is not...
ENERGENII

ENERGENII

ENERGENIIConedus conedus RANGE: These tiny terrorists move at the speed of light, are as odorless as natural gas, and harder to find than offshore oil. Yet they are everywhere, flitting from the hypercooled south to the overheated north, leaving trails of white smoke...
FOUL SEWER OGRES

FOUL SEWER OGRES

FOUL SEWER OGRESDisgustibus malodorus subterraneus RANGE: The drains and cisterns, goosenecks and septic tanks, culverts and aqueducts of America are the dark domain of the Foul Sewer Ogres. Each night, they emerge, unbidden, onto the surface—like repressed urges,...
THE BUGBEAR

THE BUGBEAR

THE BUGBEARBacchus paccus RANGE: The Bugbear is a wind-spirit: something between a breath of fresh air and a neuralgia-inducing draft. She beckons us onward through Death Valley, upward to the Rockies, downward into the depths of Carlsbad Caverns, outward through the...
JACK Î’. NIMBUS

JACK Î’. NIMBUS

JACK Î’. NIMBUSJupiter pluvius RANGE: From the hurricane-harried trailer parks of the Keys to twistertormented Texas trails, through the earthquake-shaking guacamole ranches of California, up through the fog-sodden bogs of the Northwest, across the snowbound,...
THE SPIRIT OF ’76

THE SPIRIT OF ’76

THE SPIRIT OF ’76Ε pluribus, pluribus RANGE: It would be pleasant to report that this admirable, supernatural entity is present and active at all times, in all American states and territories, that she hovers eternally above every farm and forest, town and city,...