On the outside it looked like any house, but inside were concealed the infinite universe, warring clans, superhuman robots and the possibility of a cup of coffee.
The newly opened science-fiction bookshop was significantly smaller than the bridge of the Enterprise.
seems to love the fantasy: ”Harry Potter”, ”hunger games” and ”the Lord of the Rings”. But I want to get my children to understand the power of science fiction, so I asked:
” Have you Dune?
“Alone, you are not to ask for this,” said the blonde man at the counter.
(Maybe he used not exactly the context, but you understand what I mean.) Unfortunately, the only specimen in English already norpats of a faster bargain hunters.
but what are dragons and wizards against a mechanized future in the grey? And in ”Dune” (or as it is called in Swedish ”Arrakis – ökenplaneten”) are also witches, and giant worms.
“I may buy something else,” I said. Maybe something by Jack Vance, but it was so long ago I read that I can’t remember any good.
raised his voice:
” Is there someone in the store who is a good Jack Vance?
“I am,” said a short creature in the glasses and so we looked together at the Vance books that were in the shelf and agreed to the English edition of ”Dödsmaskinen” maybe it would be something.
From my pocket I took out my small, oblong, glasklädda box with the world’s collective knowledge. I removed a plastic tray from the iPhone shell of synthetic leather. I held the credit card of a small white box and somewhere on the planet Earth was moved a few ones and zeros from one place to another.
Augustin Erba is the editor of DN Saturday and have spent a little too much time in the futures that were.
