A monster crosses over into the everyday world. The mortals struggle and show great courage, but it’s no use. The monster kills first the guilty, then the innocent, until finally only one remains. The Last...

I remember the will said, ‘May God thy gold refine.’ That must be from the Bible.””Shakespeare,” Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.

But I have already told the beginning, so right now it’s the middle. And Zeb is in the middle of the story about Zeb. He is in the middle of his own story.I am not...

You know, I’ve always hated those stories about princes and princesses with some extraordinary ability, special because they’re born special.’ ‘Like me?’ He smiled wickedly, making me laugh a little. ‘I didn’t see how those...

You mean old books?””Stories written before space travel but about space travel.””How could there have been stories about space travel before –“”The writers,” Pris said, “made it up.

Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories, imagination and irrationality in opposing, contradictory states that existed and didn’t exist, all...