Normal (Normal, #1-4)

by Warren Ellis

Fiction is bench-testing aspects of possible futures. Also an early-warning station for bad weather ahead.

the rudder of experience, as you put it, hasn’t necessarily altered—just the way we explain the action of wood in water to ourselves.

We distrust our own adaptive nature. I still wonder why that is.

extent. I tend to see what’s under things, and to see things as extensions of or emulations of nature.