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“It was hot, the night we burned Chrome.”

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Burning Chrome is a seminal work in the cyberpunk genre, featuring a protagonist navigating a world dominated by advanced technology and corporate control. The story delves into themes of surveillance, privacy, and the human condition amidst a backdrop of high-tech crime and corporate espionage. more

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William Gibson

William Gibson, born on March 17, 1948, is a renowned science fiction novelist from Canada. His works are known for their unique futurist style and profound insights into technological development, making him a representative figure in the cyberpunk literary genre. more

“Blood in the water I sing, and one who shed it: deadliest hunger I sing, and one who fed it- weaving the ancient-most tale of the Sea's sending: singing the tragedy, singing the joy unending This is our shame- this is the whole Ocean's glory: this is the Song of the Twelve. Hark to the story! Hearken, and bring it to pass: swift lest the sorrow long ago laid to it's rest devour us tomarrow!”

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Book:Deep Wizardry

Source: Deep Wizardry

“A homeless man once told me that dancing to rap music is the cultural equivalent of masturbating, and I'd sort of fell the same way about playing John Madden Football immediately after filing my income tax: It's fun, but - somehow - vaguely pathetic.”

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Book:Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

“Be of good courage all is before you, and time passed in the difficult is never lost...What is required of us is that we live the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.”

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Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.”

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Author:Cormac McCarthy

“I came ready to fight Genghis Khan and I walk in on a shut-in playing the biggest Dungeons and Dragons game in history.”

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Author:Richard Kadrey

“Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.”

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Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words.”

Forever Gold Complexity

Book:We: Introduction by Will Self

Source: We: Introduction by Will Self

“Once man's connection to the divine is denied, you can reason yourself from here to anywhere.”

Men Reason Divine Connections Denied

Book:Godless: The Church of Liberalism

Source: Godless: The Church of Liberalism

“People did change, and a change could be a bloom as well as a withering.”

People Wells Withering

Book:Revolutionary Road

Source: Revolutionary Road

“Behind them in the garden the little stone house brooded among the shadows. It was lonely but not forsaken. It had not yet done with dreams and laughter and the joy of life; there were to be future summers for the little stone house; meanwhile, it could wait. And over the river in purple durance the echoes bided their time.”

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