The Shadows of Alexandrium
by David Gerrold
Up in the Citadel, we polled eight Librarians on whether this story should be included in
the database. The results? Nobody thought it should be excluded, nobody thought it should
be included, and eleven were certain it wasn’t a story. Probably. So with that mandate
along with the fact that at one point in the narrative neither space nor time exist and
at another point outside the narrative David Gerrold annouced this was an homage to Douglas Adams and Doctor Who, we hereby
present the official indexing of “The Shadows of Alexandrium.”
— Michael Main
If we had the time—well, actually, we do, because there isn’t any time here, just
like there isn’t any space, except what we’ve been creating by being here, all this
staring around—that’s making nothing into something.
“The Shadows of Alexandrium” by David Gerrold, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September/October
2020.