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Century Rain

In this novel, the protagonist navigates a world where the line between technology and nature is blurred, facing challenges that test the boundaries of human existence and technological advancement. more

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Alastair Reynolds
Alastair Reynolds

Alastair Reynolds is a British science fiction author known for his complex cosmic backgrounds and profound philosophical reflections. His works often explore the position of humans in the universe and the ethical boundaries of technology. more

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“The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not to describe nature, but to show you a world completely absorbed and possessed by the human mind.”

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Book:Collected Works of Northrop Frye: The educated imagination and other writings on critical theory 1933-1963
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“Much of her life had been lived like a balancing act on a spearpoint fence, and on a particularly difficult night when she was twelve, she had decided that instinct was, in fact, the quiet voice of God. Prayers did receive replies, but you had to listen closely and believe in the answer. At twelve, she wrote in her diary: "God doesn't shout; He whispers, and in the whisper is the way.”

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Book:Intensity: A Novel
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“My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather. One such melting occurs in summer rain, at midnight, during the vine-green breathing time right before sleep. You have to ask the right question, throw the right rope bridge, to get there-and then bolt across the chasm between you, before your bridge collapses.”

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Author:Karen Russell
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“This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are vast numbers, not only in this Island but in every land, who will render faithful service in this war, but whose names will never be known, whose deeds will never be recorded. This is a War of the Unknown Warriors”

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Book:War speeches
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