“Have you ever played Maximum Happy Imagination?""Sounds like a Japanese game show."Kat straightens her shoulders. "Okay, we're going to play. To start, imagine the future. The good future. No nuclear bombs. Pretend you're a science fiction writer."Okay: "World government... no cancer... hover-boards.""Go further. What's the good future after that?""Spaceships. Party on Mars.""Further.""Star Trek. Transporters. You can go anywhere.""Further.""I pause a moment, then realize: "I can't."Kat shakes her head. "It's really hard. And that's, what, a thousand years? What comes after that? What could possibly come after that? Imagination runs out. But it makes sense, right? We probably just imagine things based on what we already know, and we run out of analogies in the thirty-first century.”
“Have you ever played Maximum Happy Imagination?""Sounds like a Japanese game show."Kat straightens her shoulders. "Okay, we're going to play. To start, imagine the future. The good future. No nuclear bombs. Pretend you're a science fiction writer."Okay: "World government... no cancer... hover-boards.""Go further. What's the good future after that?""Spaceships. Party on Mars.""Further.""Star Trek. Transporters. You can go anywhere.""Further.""I pause a moment, then realize: "I can't."Kat shakes her head. "It's really hard. And that's, what, a thousand years? What comes after that? What could possibly come after that? Imagination runs out. But it makes sense, right? We probably just imagine things based on what we already know, and we run out of analogies in the thirty-first century.”
Robin Sloan
“The internet: always proving that you're not quite as special as you suspected.”
Robin Sloan, Sourdough“Its circumference was tiny, but he had a life, and he would not give it up.”
Robin Sloan, The Writer and the Witch“A fellowship of secret scholars spent five hundred years on this task. Now we're penciling it in for a Friday morning.”
Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore“I always thought the key to immortality would be, like, tiny robots fixing things in your brain,” she says. “Not books.”
Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore“The nature of immortality is a mystery,' he says, speaking so softly that we have to lean closer to hear.' But everything I know of writing and reading tells me that this is true. I have felt it in these shelves and in others.”
Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore“Now, for the first time in my life, I empathize 100 percent with Fluff McFly. My heart is beating at hamster-speed and I am throwing my eyes around the room, looking for some way out.”
Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore“What if, you know—what if hanging out with Griffo Gerritszoon wasn’t always that great? What if he was weird and dreamy? What if the best part of him was the shapes he could make with metal? That part of him really is immortal. It’s as immortal as anything’s going to get.”
Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore“When every single piece of media you consume is time-shifted, does that mean it's actually you that's time-shifted?”
Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore“There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care.”
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