Book Excerpt for the Day

    “Michael.  What are you thinking about?”

    I am nothing.

    “Tell me what that means.”

    It means I am nothing special.  I am nowhere special.  I am in no special time.  I would not know if the whole world were suddenly made one day older or one day younger.  I would not know if the whole world were moved to the left this much.  He hopped sideways, like a frog; briefly he grinned as a child.  It means that the world was born, and will die, just as I will.  He said this calmly, as if it were as obvious as the weather.  (. . .)

    “Tell me how you know that, Michael.”

    Because the sky is dark at night.

    (from Manifold Time by Stephen Baxter)

  8½*/10.  The complete review is here.

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