collection of short stories of scenarios in philosopher's analogies, like the train one, or of mathematical examples, the infinite hotel
story example: a story about how is working as a receptionist in an infinite hotel
story example 2: scientists who invented the first teleported, debating if...
world where magic exists, but many groups understood it differently, some think it is god's blessing, a natural ability, something learned, some kind of bloodline, etc..
main character is working for the government trying to categorize each group, and how each interacts with magic
Dostoevsky went to the gulags, Kafka's father hated him.
maybe this is the reason why modern literature seems so mediocre in comparison, its writers have not suffered as much