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“He pointed to another number, changing as rapidly as the first, but on a lower trajectory; it rose to a high of 8.79 rem per hour. Several lifetimes of dentists’ X-rays, to be sure; but the radiation outside the storm shelter would have been a lethal dose, so they were getting off lightly. Still, the amount flying through the rest of the ship! Billions of particles were penetrating the ship and colliding with the atoms of water and metal they were huddled behind; hundreds of millions were flying between these atoms and then through the atoms of their bodies, touching nothing, as if they were no more than ghosts. Still, thousands were striking atoms of flesh and bone. Most of those collisions were harmless; but in all those thousands, there were in all probability one or two (or three?) in which a chromosome strand was taking a hit, and kinking in the wrong way: and there it was. Tumor initiation, begun with just that typo in the book of the self. And years later, unless the victim's DNA luckily repaired itself, the tumor promotion that was a more or less unavoidable part of living would have its effect, and there would appear a bloom of Something Else inside: cancer. Leukemia, most likely; and, most likely, death.”

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Book:Red Mars
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“In our work titled “On Nature and Against Method, Reflections & Propositions,” in Proposition XXXVII, we stated the following: The ancient Ionian thinkers and natural philosophers who had, in a sense, transformed into the fire of Heraclitus, namely the masters of the Milesian school, the cradle of civilization, await the reemergence of this Ionian vision, which we have described as a kind of reverie, within Blue Anatolia. Science, which is now struggling within a profound darkness of processes and risks coming to a complete standstill in its progress, may yet be revitalized by minds that will once again inherit and internalize the approaches of these Ionian thinkers toward nature. Today more than ever, there is a need for Thales’ water and magnetism, Anaximenes’ breath, Anaximander’s apeiron, Anaxagoras’ ordering mind, and Xenophanes of Colophon’s counter-awareness, his narratives, and his poetic sensibility. In this spirit, alongside our discourse on contemporary physics and astrophysics, we have undertaken a postulate not previously articulated, one that unifies nuclear strong interactions, neutron star physics, biophysics, and topology under a single framework, where a topology-centered new geometry prevails rather than the conventional hierarchy of physical forces. Just as the masters of the Ionian tradition, Empedocles and Anaximander, conveyed their insights through a poetic feast in their works On Nature, we too have woven these ideas into the fabric of nature through our poems. In doing so, we have prioritized form over meter. This form, inseparable from consciousness, existence, and knowledge belonging to this new geometry, establishes a new morphology, acting as a boundary condition that shelters our words, preventing them from being dispersed within the labyrinths of the cosmos. In the philosophical walks by the lakeside, frequently contemplated by Gödel and Einstein, and placed, in Paul Benacerraf’s terms, upon paired circles that avoid reducing our postulate to either of the two axes of philosophy, ontology and epistemology, we instead enable a holistic interaction between them. While incomplete encounters within mathematical and geometric solution spaces find completion in Hilbert space, transcendent reflections on nature and our challenges to method form the essence of this work. In this context, rather than a conventional poetry book or a mere collection of arbitrary texts, what emerges is a meta-text: a systematic inquiry into nature in which intuition and science are interwoven, expressed through poetic form. Moving beyond contemporary literary tendencies that often confine poetry within blocks of prose or reduce it to brief expressions relegated to journal margins, we have tested poetry as not a decorative element but as a constitutive principle of existence. These transitions, imbued with reason and transcendence between layers of perception, have brought us one step closer to the harmony of poetic expression and, ultimately, to mathematics and geometry, the language of the universe itself. May this work serve as a guiding cosmological atlas for an intellect that seeks both truth and itself across interwoven meta-texts, in its comprehension of the infinite nature of reality.”

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Book:Pumpkin Dessert with Tahini in the Cloud Chamber - Without Walnuts & Neutrinoless: Science & Poetry, Volume IV
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“Burak Cem Coşkun’s Pumpkin Dessert with Tahini in the Cloud Chamber is a strikingly unique addition to contemporary literature that successfully merges the precision of theoretical physics with the lyrical soul of Anatolian philosophy. As the fourth volume in his *Science and Poetry* series, the work functions less like a traditional poetry collection and more like a "meta-text" where the author, a physicist by training, uses concepts like de-Sitter space, neutrinos, and topological solution spaces to explore deeply human themes of memory, existence, and nature. The structure is intellectually ambitious, moving from the "Fine Tuning" of cosmic scales to "Transcendental" reflections that feel rooted in the Ionian tradition of natural philosophers like Thales and Anaximander. What makes the reading experience so natural is how the author anchors these abstract scientific metaphors in physical locations—from the "glacial austerity of Stockholm" to the "mist-veiled nights of Tartu"—and ends with a fascinating philosophical "postulate" regarding Randomly Organized Structural Entities (ROSE) that attempts to unify biophysics with astrophysics through a geometry-centered framework. It is an evocative read for anyone interested in the intersection of mythos and logos, successfully arguing that the language of the universe is not just mathematical, but inherently poetic.”

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Book:Pumpkin Dessert with Tahini in the Cloud Chamber - Without Walnuts & Neutrinoless: Science & Poetry, Volume IV
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“By now Morrissey has circled the lot. Her sedan slows at the stop sign fronting the main road. One of her taillights is cracked, a detail that gives me an unkind flicker of amusement. She lifts her phone and scowls at the screen as she types: driving directions, a takeout food order on an app, maybe a text. The phone remains in her raised hand as she pulls out onto the boulevard, where she guns the engine and shoots away, an angry bullet in the sun.”

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Book:Culpability
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“Lorelei isn't Zeus. I see that now with scathing clarity. No, she is Atlas, with an entire world poised between her shoulder blades, crushing her with its moral weight. The world of artificial minds in all their terrifying incarnations. Self-driving cars saving innumerable lives but ending others. Platforms that enable information sharing and yet also the manipulative spread of disinformation that leads to the overthrow of democratic governments. Autonomous weapons systems hunting out terrorists while taking out busloads of civilians. And who knows what other nonhuman perversions of human imaginings. And Lorelei sees herself as their conscience. As their soul.”

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Book:Culpability
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“[Edward Teller} had “the most important kvestion of all”. Leaning closer, he said, “Vill you be villing to vork on veapons?” Unbidden, images from Stanley Kubrick’s film Dr. Strangelove leaped to mind. But Teller had impressed me as a deep, reflective man. I said I would—occasionally, at least. I had grown up deep in the shadow of the Cold War. My father was a career army officer, and I had spent six years living with my family in occupied post-war Japan and Germany. It seemed to me that the best, indeed the only, way to avoid strategic conventional war, whose aftermath I had seen in shattered Tokyo and Berlin. .... That afternoon began my long, winding involvement with modern science and fiction, the inevitable clash of the noble and imaginary elements in both science and fiction with the gritty and practical. I have never settled emotionally the tensions between these modes of thinking. Growing up amid the shattered ruins of Germany and Japan, with a father who had fought through World War II and then spent long years occupying the fallen enemy lands, impressed me with the instability of even advanced nations. The greatest could blunder the most.”

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Book:New Legends
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“Stephen, how do we know what the ultimate good of Humanity will entail? We haven’t at our disposal the infinite factors that the Machine has at its! Perhaps, to give you a not unfamiliar example, our entire technical civilization has created more unhappiness and misery than it has removed. Perhaps an agrarian or pastoral civilization, with less culture and less people would be better. If so, the Machines must move in that direction, preferably without telling us, since in our ignorant prejudices we only know that what we are used to, is good — and we would then fight change. Or perhaps a complete urbanization, or a completely caste-ridden society, or complete anarchy, is the answer. We don’t know. Only the Machines know, and they are going there and taking us with them.”

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Book:I, Robot
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“On the television screen were ballerinas. A buzzer sounded in George's head. His thoughts fled in panic, like bandits from a burglar alarm. "That was a real pretty dance, that dance they just did," said Hazel. "Huh" said George. "That dance-it was nice," said Hazel. "Yup," said George. He tried to think a little about the ballerinas. They weren't really very good-no better than anybody else would have been, anyway. They were burdened with sashweights and bags of birdshot, and their faces were masked, so that no one, seeing a free and graceful gesture or a pretty face, would feel like something the cat drug in. George was toying with the vague notion that maybe dancers shouldn't be handicapped. But he didn't get very far with it before another noise in his ear radio scattered his thoughts. George winced. So did two out of the eight ballerinas.”

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Book:Harrison Bergeron
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“When I first arrived here, once I got over the shock, I thought I had entered a sort of purgatory. A second chance, you know. You can't imagine what it was like to be a man of-of my persuasion, in my time. Now it seems I've got another goal of it in an era that suits me better. But, you know, you can make yourself feel lonely and miserable and out of joint just by falling in love with someone who can't or won't love you back. Perhaps they'll fix that in another 200 years. Perhaps they'll come to get us and that's how we'll know we've reached heaven.”

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Book:The Ministry of Time
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“Speak peace unto the world and good souls will stand.”

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Book:Dollhead Corporation
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“Fictions are not make-believe. We have come to understand this better through the medium of sci-fi, as so much of what begins as a futuristic fantasy becomes an ordinary part of the world we know. Fiction is much more than social-realist cut-outs of contemporary life. More than representation. Fiction declares and debates inner realities that gradually press forward into our outer circumstances. We catch up with our dreams.”

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Book:One Aladdin Two Lamps
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“The Dream Attack & Daydream Fictions is a unique work that blends scientific rigor with philosophical depth and literary aesthetics, leading the reader on an unconventional journey. From a reader's perspective, this book is not merely a collection of stories but a thought experiment exploring the intersection of ontological astrophysics, topology, and consciousness. The work questions the thin, permeable boundary between dreams and reality through eight interconnected stories. The author’s background as a physicist lends scientific weight to concepts like "topological relationships" and "connectionist integrity," while masterfully exploring the transitions between Mythos and Logos. In stories such as "Trojan 137" and "The Scarlet Letter," time and consciousness are constructed as intricate labyrinths. Each narrative is an ideal plane placed in the realm of reality.”

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Book:Hayal Krizi & Gün'düşü Hikayeleri
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“Through concepts such as topological continuity, connectionist integrity, and the interplay between Mythos and Logos, the book transforms abstract scientific ideas into immersive narrative experiences. Characters navigate shared dream states, recursive realities, and ontological fractures, confronting the unsettling possibility that consciousness is not merely observing reality, but generating it. Both poetic and precise, scientific and surreal, this work invites readers into a literary laboratory where physics and imagination converge. Perfect for readers of Jorge Luis Borges, Stanisław Lem, Ted Chiang, and Italo Calvino, this book challenges not only what reality is, but how it is constructed. What if reality were not a fixed structure, but a topological surface, folded, continuous, and vulnerable to rupture from within consciousness itself?”

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Book:The Dream Attack & Daydream Fictions
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“Oneirology is the research of dreams. It derives from the Greek, oneiro, meaning dream. The Five Pillars of Dreamscapes is a guide based on initial Oneirologist research from the 1900’s. They will include field experiments introducing the five basic foundations, known as Pillars. These basic Pillars will be needed to begin and maintain lucid dreaming. Pillar One – ANCHOR. Maintain control upon arrival in a shared dream state. Invade and place a marker or anchor to stabilize your placement. Pillar Two – SAILS. Leave a link in both sleeping and dream worlds. Self. Aware. In. Lost. State. Travel freely in both states. Pillar Three – SWIM. Immersion into another dream for control. Invade and manipulate the environment for control in the shared dream. Pillar Four – TEMPO – Time manipulation in the shared dream state. Control perception of time as you create in a shared dream. Pillar Five – MANIFESTATION – Create an avatar in a shared dream to conceal your identity. Hide behind a mask upon dream invasions. Half of the human population has experienced lucid dreaming, when the dreamer can control what happens while asleep. Being aware of your consciousness while in a lucid dream is a form of metacognition. The Five Pillars outlined in this book will improve your awareness of your awareness while dreaming. These basic steps need to be learned and mastered to better interpret dream metacognition. The Fifth Pillar, MANIFESTATION, might be the most important to create over time. Every shared dream will require you to hide your identity behind a mask. The mask will eventually be your Avatar to protect you in the dream world. Start now on what you would like to become and have your avatar ready upon completion of this guide. Safe Travels, Amaury Armond”

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Book:Queen of the Dream Invaders
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