"That's modern life, though, isn't it? Our lives aren't even about doing real things, most of the time. We think and talk about people we've never met, pretend to visit places we've never actually been to, discuss things that are just names as though they were as real as rocks or animals or something. Information Age? Hell, it's Imagination Age. We're living in our own minds. No, really we're living in other people's minds."

Tad Williams: Otherland - Mountain of Black Glass. Daw Books New York 1999