What if I left my memory in the future and I have to catch up to it?

Magic is the cheat codes for the world.

By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it

Read comics. All comics. And then cut them open to steal their power.

That means that the universe is two-dimensional. Matter, energy, time, you, me and the floor are holograms.

The single simplest reason why human space flight is necessary is this, stated as plainly as possible: keeping all your breeding pairs in one place is a retarded way to run a species.