philosophy

"Anti-intellectualism gives rise to the most extreme, the most morally deplorable, form of sloth. It is to be found in persons for whom the ultimate objectives in life are the maximization of pleasure, money, fame, or power and who, thus motivated, express their contempt for those who waste their lives in purely intellectual pursuits. It is almost as if they wished they did not have the burden of having intellects that might distract them from their fanatical devotion to nonintellectual aims."
-Mortimer Adler

7 .== We Create Worlds

Reality is boring.

Jen couldn't pinpoint the exact moment she realized it. But it changed the course of her life irrevocably, once it happened. The Summoned chose her to be a creator, a builder of worlds, a smith of distractions.

5 .== The Fracture

Far past the fringes of Stelnet, where the Eyes of the Summoned cannot see, and the Ears of the Summoned cannot hear, and the Hands of the Summoned cannot reach, there is a planet with no star.

On this planet, there is a door with no structure to surround it--no castle, no house, no shack. Just a solitary door.

On the other side of this door can be found the Fracture.

3 .== Sum Mundus

Julie's fingers curled the pages of some ancient text, a treatise on the human brain, using a hologram as a metaphor for the brain's true nature. If we knew then what we know now...

This is the sequel to Magnetic Gecko, although you need not have read that to grasp this story.