Her home is the burrow of a bibliophile hobbit -– low-ceilinged, close-walled, and brimming over with books. - Robin Sloan

Why does the typical adventuring group consist of a wizard, a warrior, and a rogue, anyway? It should really be a wizard, a warrior, and a rich guy. Otherwise who's going to pay for all the swords and spells and hotel rooms?

There had to be a scale somewhere — the scale of stars, the scale of far-off cosmic super-beings — upon which we ourselves, we humans with our cities and bridges and subterranean markets, would look like the lactobacilli and the yeast.

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