I will admit that I just want an excuse to put all my favorite people in a room together. - Robin Sloan

There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight. It takes forty-one seconds to climb a ladder three stories tall. It’s not easy to imagine the year 3012, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try. We have new capabilities now — strange powers we’re still getting used to. The mountains are a message from Aldrag the Wyrm-Father. Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.

Our books still do not require batteries. But I am no fool. It is a slender advantage.

All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.