It’s impossible that the end of the year is just around the corner! Where did the year go? Are we really a few days away from 2019, and a just year away from 2020?
That’s a frightening thought. It doesn’t seem so long ago that popular science fiction was set in the 2020s, a decade far into the future.
Well, the future is here. NASA has recently landed its eighth spacecraft on Mars, cars with autopilot are hitting the roads, and in our pockets and purses we carry “phones” with processors that eclipse any mainframe computer of a few decades ago.
Amazing times.
So in keeping with my musings on time and the future, I’m posting quotes from three of my favorite genres: science fiction, fantasy, and horror. These appeared in The Chosen Updates December newsletter.
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This first quote is from a famous 1979 science fiction novel which originated as a comedy radio play on the BBC:
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.” –Ford Prefect, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
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The wisdom of Gandalf bears a message we should all heed: “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”–Gandalf, from Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien.
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And finally, Dracula’s perspective of time was framed by his centuries of isolation high in the Carpathian mountains: “. . .and after all, how few days go to make up a century.”–Dracula, from the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker.
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As some of you may know, this past summer I started a monthly newsletter called The Chosen Updates which includes, among other things, exclusive excerpts from upcoming releases. If you missed the first few issues, you can visit The Chosen Updates Archive for summaries and links to past editions. And if you’d like to sign up for future newsletters, you can sign up for The Chosen Updates here.
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And on a last note, I’m holding a Final Year-End Sale on The Chosen entire series. Watcher, Runner, The Last Trace, and The Games Monsters Play are all on sale – you can get the whole shebang for less than $4.00! And if you already have the series, be sure to pass this along to a friend.
That’s it for now. In January I’ll re-cap the year and talk about what’s on the horizon for 2019.
Until then, have a Happy New Year!
~RM~
