Traffic Jam

Translated by Kim Martin Metzger

Introduction
Foreword or Afterword
The Dreamer
The Blue Boy
Planet of the Carrots
Fear
Fear Again
The Strange People from
Planet Hortus
When the Soldiers Came
Two Fighters
Man Against Man
The Great War on Mars
The Slave
The Farmers who were Good at Numbers
The Strange War
Arobanai
Star Snake
Traffic Jam
At Your Own Doorstep
The Two Prisoners
Justice
Report to the United Solar
Systems' Council
Open Words
The Bomb
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Wherever a lot of people get together, things are always happening that nobody predicted or planned. Yes, even things that nobody wants to happen. Does that sound unbelievable?

Think, for example, of the traffic jams on our freeways. Does somebody want the traffic jam to happen? Does anyone really want to sit around on a hot and dusty freeway and sweat? No, of course not. Everybody just wants to get somewhere as fast as possible. And that’s exactly why they are stuck in a traffic jam – and as a matter of fact, routinely and again and again.