"... I think stories of transformations, of wild glories and everyday glories, of magic both real and imaginary, can act like a map. They give us a push toward hope. Real true hope isn't the promise that everything will be all right — but it's a belief that the world has so many strangenesses and possibilities that giving up would be a mistake; that we live in a universe shot through with the unexpected. There's never been a single decade in human history when we have not taken ourselves by surprise: we, the ungainly, wonky-toothed human species, have an endless potential for change. I am not an optimist, or a pessimist; I am a possibilityist. The possibilities out there for discovery, for knowledge, for transforming the world, are literally — there are spectacular ideas that we will have in the next ten years that we can't even begin to dream of now."
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Katherine Rundell
i(born 10 July 1987) s a British author of children’s books and a leading expert on the life and work of John Donne. She is, since 2008, a Fellow of . Her book Rooftoppers won the 2015 . Her book Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne won the 2022 . Her book Impossible Creatures was named for 2023. Her work has also won the , the , the , the , and '.
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