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"The first thing that's wrong with being a science-fiction writer today is that the present has caught up with the future and surpassed it."
- Peter Watts
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| Milliways | ||
| The restaurant at the end of the universe. |
A five-star restaurant situated at the very end of the universe.
“Ladies and gentlemen, the Universe as we know it has now been in existence for over one hundred and seventy thousand million billion years and will be ending in a little over half an hour. So, welcome one and all to Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe!"
Max Quordlepleen's introduction at Milliways
| The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is one of the most extraordinary ventures in the entire history of catering.
It is built on the fragmented remains of an eventually ruined planet which is... enclosed in a vast time bubble and projected forward in time to the precise moment of the End of the Universe. This is, many would say, impossible. In it, guests take... their places at table and eat... sumptuous meals whilst watching... the whole of creation explode around them. This is, many would say, equally impossible. You can arrive... for any sitting you like without prior...) reservation because you can book retrospectively, as it were when you return to your own time.... This is, many would now insist, absolutely impossible. |
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Bastablon star system advertising execs offer the following slogan:
Compare to the interplanetary restaurant from Asteroid Pirates (1938) by Royal W. Heckman, the multispecies hotel from Hotel Cosmos (1938) by Raymond Z. Gallun, the science fiction restaurant from Expedition to Earth (1953) by Robert Zacks and the Draco Tavern appearing in that story series by Larry Niven.
"If you've done six impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe."
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