You can also order Slaves of the Switchboard of Doom from these merchants:
You could
wear every T-Shirt that's available from the Retropolis Transit Authority (and, indeed, you should); you could cover your walls with posters from the Retropolis Travel Bureau (which is also recommended); but even with all that art of Retropolis surrounding you, you still wouldn't get a chance to see in.
And that's exactly what books do for you: they allow you to go on a day trip through a place you've never visited—which you may never visit—and while you're there you can meet the locals, get an idea of what their lives are like and, pretty often, see what terrible things go wrong for them, and what they do about that.
A book is a little package full of lives and places, and all you need to do is to open it.
And here's your chance to have a look at mine. They're all illustrated (sometimes in color, and sometimes in black and white) so you don't have to give up my pictures of Retropolis in order to go there. You're welcome to bring them along, whether your trip takes you to the Info-Slate switchboard, the tower of Doctor Rognvald, the offices of the Retropolis Registry of Patents, or just about anyplace else. And you can always be back by dinnertime.
wear every T-Shirt that's available from the Retropolis Transit Authority (and, indeed, you should); you could cover your walls with posters from the Retropolis Travel Bureau (which is also recommended); but even with all that art of Retropolis surrounding you, you still wouldn't get a chance to see in.
And that's exactly what books do for you: they allow you to go on a day trip through a place you've never visited—which you may never visit—and while you're there you can meet the locals, get an idea of what their lives are like and, pretty often, see what terrible things go wrong for them, and what they do about that.
A book is a little package full of lives and places, and all you need to do is to open it.
And here's your chance to have a look at mine. They're all illustrated (sometimes in color, and sometimes in black and white) so you don't have to give up my pictures of Retropolis in order to go there. You're welcome to bring them along, whether your trip takes you to the Info-Slate switchboard, the tower of Doctor Rognvald, the offices of the Retropolis Registry of Patents, or just about anyplace else. And you can always be back by dinnertime.
