"Isn't it freaky?" asked Janet. "But kind of cool. I think it overlays the library itself in some kind of weird warping of space and time, but I'm not a physicist, so the complicated stuff is a bit beyond me."

She started glancing at tables. "Extinct Mammal Cloning," she read off one book. "Matrix Manipulation. How To Destroy The Earth In Ten Easy Steps." Janet stopped and glared. "By Anubis. Somebody should tell whatever publisher that is to ask for their advance back."

A bird flew overhead and Janet jumped. "Okay, that was weird. I think that was a dodo. Which are extinct. And they most certainly did not fly."