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Michael’s 2025 Year in Books
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What does it mean to exist outside every category society offers? Michael Kilman and Matt Wellstrom explore Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist through an anthropological lens, examining isolation, otherness, gender identity, and what vampires tell us about capitalism and nationalism. Featuring the theory of Mary Douglas, and a discuss
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Wow! What a series. Truly a master work of science fiction. This series will live on for generations. And it's so brilliant, so incredibly and almost unbelievably researched. If you need a great scifi series that lives in thr tradition of what scifi
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“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”
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“No wonder it seems like someone shit in his cereal.”
― Upon Stilted Cities: The Winds of Change
― Upon Stilted Cities: The Winds of Change
“It has gone nowhere, you have gone somewhere. We are all nowhere until we go somewhere. Your mind is full again, but not because it is empty, you only think it is full.”
― Upon Stilted Cities: The Battle for Langeles
― Upon Stilted Cities: The Battle for Langeles
“Mimi, all shadows are cast by light. There is a moment, a chance, when you face your greatest darkness, that you can turn, just a little bit, and trace the source of the shadow unto its origin. It is in those moments you have the chance to understand something about yourself and about the world that you may have never seen before. The darkness of your past is an opportunity. You are not the things that have happened to you. You are not your talents or your weakness, you are what you choose to be. There is no shadow you can cast that love, friendship, and kindness cannot overcome.”
― Mimi of the Nowhere
― Mimi of the Nowhere
“Luxury always comes at someone else’s expense. One of the many advantages of civilization is that one doesn’t generally have to see that, if one doesn’t wish. You’re free to enjoy its benefits without troubling your conscience.”
― Ancillary Justice
― Ancillary Justice
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― 1984
― 1984
“They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms
“The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save-the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour-your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life-the greater is the store of your estranged being.”
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“Evil turned out not to be a grand thing. Not sneering Emperors with their world-conquering designs. Not cackling demons plotting in the darkness beyond the world. It was small men with their small acts and their small reasons. It was selfishness and carelessness and waste. It was bad luck, incompetence, and stupidity. It was violence divorced from conscience or consequence. It was high ideals, even, and low methods.”
― Red Country
― Red Country
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