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	Dragon Day by Bob Proehl (Goodreads Author), Hayley Atwell (Narrator), Michael Chiklis (Narrator) 3.70 avg rating — 2,316 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Hundred Thousand Worlds 3.78 avg rating — 1,576 ratings — published 2016 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Nobody People (The Resonant Duology #1) 3.57 avg rating — 1,020 ratings — published 2019 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Somebody People (The Resonant Duology, #2) 3.89 avg rating — 206 ratings — published 2020 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gilded Palace of Sin 3.83 avg rating — 176 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Del Rey's Next Reads Sampler 2020 Edition: Excerpts from 11 Upcoming and Current Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Titles by Max Brooks (Goodreads Author), Peter F. Hamilton (Goodreads Author), Kevin Hearne (Goodreads Author) 2.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Look at all this. It's fantastic. A hundred thousand worlds. What I love most, because I'm a hideous narcissist, is knowing many of these worlds are mine. You know what all of this is, don't you? This is the immune system of the human soul. Superheroes, space rangers, time cowboys, they are the T cells of the spirit. They were always here to save us. We made them to save us.”
― Bob Proehl, A Hundred Thousand Worlds

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“There was no conspiracy, his grandfather said, but a consensus that the truth was not a thing to be spoken.”
― Bob Proehl, The Nobody People

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“Part of the job of adults was to set limits. But the last rule, the unspoken rule of any story or journey, is that all limits are suspect. All warnings show only the point where the last story stopped, the boundary past which the map is unmapped. The Kingdom of Here There Be Dragons is the province of explorers, magicians, and kids.”
― Bob Proehl, A Hundred Thousand Worlds

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“The past above, the future below
and the present pouring down: the roar,
the roar of the present, a speech--
is, of necessity, my sole concern.”
― William Carlos Williams, Paterson

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