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The Druimport Entwister, or simply the Entwister, was a newspaper edited by the Wordsmith, (PROSE: The Druimport Entwister No. 276 [+]Loading...["The Druimport Entwister No. 276 (short story)"]) a member of the extra-universal organisation known as the Multiplicity. (PROSE: {{esquivalience}} [+]Loading...["Esquivalience (novel)","'\"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000004-QINU`\"'"]) Though officially based in the mid-20th century, with Issue 276 being printed on 24 February 1963, the newspaper catered to time travellers and especially temporal tourists, reporting on news from various points in space and time in no particular order.
Issue 276 included an article by Frema Kadir on Lord WALanir Golvin Wralex's planned time-travelling archaeological expedition to the planet Wrendiar Ply; a report by Sembla Belfort on Presidium Wednesday's continuing response to the scandal of the prison planet Harvel I being run by its governor as "an unlicensed blood-rpocessing facility"; the success of T. S. Lee's novel The Travels As Our Souls Unravel, (PROSE: The Druimport Entwister No. 276 [+]Loading...["The Druimport Entwister No. 276 (short story)"]) whose title referenced the mysterious space-time event known as the Unravel; (PROSE: {{esquivalience}} [+]Loading...["Esquivalience (novel)","'\"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000009-QINU`\"'"]) a memorial by Desmond Lem to the sinking of the SS Marine Sulphur Queen whose accidental sinking, though it would be found to be accidental in the 1964 hearing on the matter, was known to spark the Bermuda Triangle conspiracy theory; a "rumination" by travel writer Melvart Dions on what would become of interstellar pleasure cruises as transmat technology became widespread; and "considerations" by S. E. Christison on the shifting geography of London, particularly the way a "notable chunk of Kennington" being transported into Peckham — (PROSE: The Druimport Entwister No. 276 [+]Loading...["The Druimport Entwister No. 276 (short story)"]) namely Powell Estate, described by contradictory accounts as being located in either section of the city. (PROSE: Rose Tyler [+]Loading...["Rose Tyler (short story)"], COMIC: Silver Scream [+]Loading...["Silver Scream (comic story)"], etc.) The issue also included classified ads and obituaries, as well as a special message from the editor advising people to "leave it in voicemail" if they heard "the call of the void". (PROSE: The Druimport Entwister No. 276 [+]Loading...["The Druimport Entwister No. 276 (short story)"])