The thinnest tendrils of dawn are creeping in from the east. People in New York are softly starting to tweet.
Robin SloanAmerica pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.
Robin SloanWalking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.
Robin SloanImagination 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 SloanThere 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 nowโstrange 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.
Robin Sloan