What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object--b — Elizabeth Bear, Shattered Pillars
What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object--b — Elizabeth Bear, Shattered Pillars
What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object--b — Elizabeth Bear, Shattered Pillars
What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object--b — Elizabeth Bear, Shattered Pillars
What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object--b — Elizabeth Bear, Shattered Pillars
What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object--b — Elizabeth Bear, Shattered Pillars
What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object--b — Elizabeth Bear, Shattered Pillars
What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object--b — Elizabeth Bear, Shattered Pillars
What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object--b — Elizabeth Bear, Shattered Pillars
What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object--b — Elizabeth Bear, Shattered Pillars
What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object--b — Elizabeth Bear, Shattered Pillars
What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object--b — Elizabeth Bear, Shattered Pillars
What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object--b — Elizabeth Bear, Shattered Pillars
What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object--b — Elizabeth Bear, Shattered Pillars
What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object--b — Elizabeth Bear, Shattered Pillars
What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object--b — Elizabeth Bear, Shattered Pillars
What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object--b — Elizabeth Bear, Shattered Pillars
What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object--b — Elizabeth Bear, Shattered Pillars
What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object--b — Elizabeth Bear, Shattered Pillars
What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object--b — Elizabeth Bear, Shattered Pillars
What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object--b — Elizabeth Bear, Shattered Pillars
What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object--b — Elizabeth Bear, Shattered Pillars
What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object--b — Elizabeth Bear, Shattered Pillars
What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object--b — Elizabeth Bear, Shattered Pillars
What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object--b — Elizabeth Bear, Shattered Pillars
What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object--b — Elizabeth Bear, Shattered Pillars
What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object--b — Elizabeth Bear, Shattered Pillars
What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object--b — Elizabeth Bear, Shattered Pillars
What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object--b — Elizabeth Bear, Shattered Pillars
What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object--b — Elizabeth Bear, Shattered Pillars
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What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object--but a human thought caught and bound, made concrete through sacred technology. Magic, then, and a deep form of it.

— Elizabeth Bear, Shattered Pillars
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