Here’s a little nonfic on the fiction genre and a plug for a new book from the author of this guest column.

Imagination is the capacity to envision, experience, or describe things that exist outside of this universe or at least outside of our personal experience. Imagination breaks various laws of physics and laws of history (for those who still believe in the disgraced hypothesis that history has laws) by allowing us to step outside the totality and engage in acts of parthenogenesis.