"My son loved the library. He loved putting books on hold online and having them waiting, bundled up with his name, when he came for them. He loved the benevolence that the stacks held out, their map of the known world. He loved the all-you-can-eat buffet of borrowing. He loved the lending histories stamped into the front of each book, the record of strangers who checked them out before him. The library was the best dungeon crawl imaginable: free loot for the finding, combined with the joy of leveling up.”

I want to read a book. That particular book doesn’t exist. I write it. Thankfully, most of the time I want to read a book, it already exists, so I read it. Eliot Peper is the author of nine novels, including Cumulus, Bandwidth, and, most recently, Veil. He publishes a blog, sends a monthly newsletter, and tweets more than he probably should.

Welcome to my life/world which is stable until… …something disrupts it, launching me on… …a journey into the unknown where I’m beset by… …progressive complications that ultimately threaten what I care about most until… …all is lost and I must… …transform my life/world… …welcome to my new life/world. Eliot Peper is the author of nine novels, including Cumulus, Bandwidth, and, most recently, Veil. He publishes a blog, sends a monthly newsletter, and tweets more than he probably should.

A fan of my near-future sci-fi novel Veil just sent me this IRL article about how the Maldives is planning to build a floating city to escape rising sea levels.