The Future Library

“But Claire could always draw me out of a mood, no matter how dark. To comfort me, she started talking about books and immortality, about how she felt that an author and their art were one and the same. That an author's works were not like children, but more like incarnations. They were their authors. And that as long as people continued to read them, they would live on. ‘When writers die, they become books,' one of her favorite authors was famously attributed as having said, she told me.”

This was amazing; brilliant and fascinating with a wide array of emotions.

Read at: https://www.tor.com/2021/08/18/the-future-library-peng-shepherd/