Fishnet Stockings #380

"Here's a tip: for an instant facelift lie down on your back, wave your legs in the air, then cross them seductively. Oh, and you should not be wearing a lot, apart from fishnet stockings and spiky stilettos. "Gravity will do the rest," declares Esther Rantzen, who is bare-legged but wearing a pair of frivolous, sparkly crimson mules with her scarlet polka-dot sun dress."

The Robot was invented in Switzerland by Alberta Hoffmann, a researcher for Mandoz Cybernetics. The CIA began investing in androids in the late 60s. The first victim of robot technology crashed through a high-story plate-glass window in a New York hotel as his agency guardian watched.

"Helena has a nasty spat with her mother and, like many a teenage girl, wishes her dead. Waves of guilt consume her when her mother is rushed to the hospital that very night. Nodding off to sleep, Helena awakes in a strange, surreal, fantastic land where she finds herself – like Alice, Dorothy and the Narnia kids before her – in a fierce battle between good and evil."