Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale.

Giant letters march across the dome of the sky: HOME NOT FOUND. Huw, who knows Comic Sans when she sees it, winces in mild disgust.

Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.

He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young was like being insane or drunk, like the convictions he held were hallucinations caused by a mental illness that could only be cured by waiting five years.

It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.

This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.