I like the content of this piece, it's very energetic. Though at the same time, a good way to end up with a fine for orbital littering...

For once I actually recognize one of your allusions - your phoenix drawing on "Scientifriction." That's one of my favourite pieces in your gallery, by the way.

What would really suprprise me would be to learn you actually had a copy of that old issue of Scientifiction. But it's liable to older than you are, depending...

That would surprise me even more than it would surprise you.

Heh, kind of reminds me of the small anecdote in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep about the Androids smuggling science fiction books to Mars (iirc). I wonder how long paper would last in the vacuum of space.

Vacuum does odd things to materials, but apart from freezing any water content in the paper, I can't see what would happen. In the long term the ice would sublimate away. That might make the paper brittle, but in zero gravity it would hardly matter. In the very long run, micro-meteors would begin holing it. And then of coure, the sheet would collide with an alien prope and merge, causing the paper to return to Earth bent on eliminating all lifeforms... at leat that's how it happens in Star Trek movies.