Thanks for this piece, it made me recall the joy of spending my afternoons in the library and the vivid dreams I got from science fiction books - I remember rea

Thanks for this piece, it made me recall the joy of spending my afternoons in the library and the vivid dreams I got from science fiction books - I remember reading Verne's "20,000 Leagues under the Sea" as a kid in the 70's and picturing the Nautilus as a nuclear submarine in Victorian clothes. Back then the cold war was rampant and Brazil was under military dictatorship. Now I'm living in the future, and it is half familiar and half surprising.