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A spaceship entered Earth's orbit and broadcast a message:
"We are the Interstellar Library. Do you want to swap? We have thousands of stories."
There were many replies.
The library was silent for a whole day, then:
"What do you mean, 'We have millions'?"
"These are the voyages of the starship Alexandria. Its continuing mission: to catalogue strange new books; to seek out new titles and new periodicals; to boldly lend where no one has lent before!"
@MicroSFF Ignoring putative rights-holderings, the planet sent back a measured response:
@MicroSFF It was an architectural description!
@MicroSFF
There are eight million stories in the naked planet.
@MicroSFF Correction, dudes from space: it's billions with a "B"
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