There's a world, somewhere out there in the multiverse, where everyone wears robes and uses base 6, where people think seriously about their institutions, and where everyone worries about the future. I'm not from that world, but I could have been.

There's a world, somewhere out there in the multiverse, where a woman invented a crystal that puts everything where it needs to be, where humans spread out through the solar system, and where nobody goes without what they need. I'm not from that world, but I could have been.

The world I am from sometimes seems dark, lawless, and cruel. But it is made infinitely brighter by the friends I have made and the stories we've shared — and I hope my writing can serve the same purpose for others, now and in the future, that others' stories served for me.