Teeny-Tiny Techno-Tactics

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I could barely see my desk beneath the manuscripts. There were about three dozen universes sitting on my desk—universes that I had no desire to visit—and I had to pick one of them and put it into production. I sighed heavily, took another gulp of coffee, and started to hack my way through the slush pile.

I quickly rejected a universe inhabited by talking cats who went on a magical quest to find an enchanted scratching-post. I eliminated a universe occupied by flying unicorns and singing dragons; the unicorns flew and the dragons sang, but nobody did very much. I obliterated a water-planet inhabited by telepathic lesbian dolphins. I rather spitefully nixed a universe which (its author informed me in a portentous cover letter) was Book One of a forthcoming trilogy. The author had written only Book One of the saga, and it consisted entirely of plot setups and character developments that were intended to whet my appetite for the impending sequels. No such luck.

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