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	Red Light: Superheroes, Saints, and Sluts by Anna Camilleri (Editor/Contributor), McKinley HellenesKrantz (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Sara Elise Seinberg (Contributor) 4.05 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2005 — 2 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
	Can'tLit: Fearless Fiction from Broken Pencil Magazine by Emma Healey (Goodreads Author) (contributor), Richard Rosenbaum (Goodreads Author), Ian Rogers (Goodreads Author) (contributor) 3.64 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2009 — 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 Journey Prize Stories 17: From The Best Of Canada's New Writers Selected by James Grainger and Nancy Lee by Various, McKinley HellenesKrantz (Goodreads Author) 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2005	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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Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

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“Every word written is a victory against Death. ”
― Michel Butor

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“I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.”
― Virginia Woolf, Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters Of Virginia Woolf

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