http://www.davidmace.co.uk/lifeintransit/ Life In Transit is a weekly story published exclusively on the David Mace website. en-uk David Mace website@davidmace.co.uk (David Mace) http://www.davidmace.co.uk/lifeintransit/index.php?article=19 <h3>Where And What Is Transit?</h3> <p><strong>Complete summaries of previous semesters are available to help you catch up with the story.</strong><p> <ul> <li><a href="semester1.php">Semester 1 summary</a></li> <li><a href="semester2.php">Semester 2 summary</a></li> <li><a href="semester3.php">Semester 3 summary</a></li> <li><a href="semester4.php">Semester 4 summary</a></li> <li><a href="semester5.php">Semester 5 summary</a></li> </ul> <p><strong>Semester 5 is over.</strong><br /> Transit is taking a break. There are troubles ahead for Jool and her friends, not to mention an infiltration by something rather more worrying than dragons&#8230;</p> <p>Transit is a bubble caught between full-sized universes, a sort of blister on the brane.<br /> <br /> The first people to find Transit found it by mistake. For centuries the only known way in was on foot. Once the place became more widely known, entrepreneurs drove through a road. Nowadays the main route in and out is by train. You can&#8217;t fly there.<br /> <br /> Transit City is surrounded by civilised land known as the Transit Ambit. Further out, the Ambit grades into wild land, and eventually the wild land&#8230;stops. Apart from the road and rail routes, there seems to be no way through the Extremities. But that doesn&#8217;t mean that <em>things</em> don&#8217;t get in. They do.<br /> <br /> Modern Transit has people, bots, reptos, those transient <em>things</em>, and its own way of life. It also has a famous university. Jool is a student there. She knows Matt and Vicky, together with other friends, colleagues and residents. She&#8217;s learning about <em>Life in Transit&#8230;</em> </p> Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:00:00 GMT Life In Transit: Article 19