The stories in Get In Trouble confirm once again that Kelly Link is a modern virtuoso of the form-playful and subversive required reading for anyone who loves short fiction.

The music I listen to while writing is really scene-specific. It's just a great motivator, a way to put myself in the mood.

You could know the what of something forever and never discover the why.

The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?

Imbuing fiction with a life that extends beyond the last word is in some ways the goal: the ending that goes beyond the ending in the reader's mind, so invested are they in the story.

That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.

It should be totally fine to question the objectivity of scientists and the power structures in scientific institutions. The physical laws of the universe are objective, but human beings in any context are not. That includes with regard to science. To some extent, the supposed objectivity of science has given a lot of extra cover to very subjective and eccentric approaches to exploring aspects of ourselves and the universe around us.