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Betty Cross
Goodreads Author
Born
in Nashville, TN, The United States
February 05, 1950
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Influences
George Orwell, J. R. R. Tolkien, Isaac Asimov, Ursula K LeGuin, Suzann
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Member Since
March 2012
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/bettycross
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Discarded Faces
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2010
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Mistress of the Topaz
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2011
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Mistress of Land and Sea
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Why Write Dystopian Fiction?
Why write dystopian fiction? Why write about an imaginary culture were everything has gone wrong and all the good things have been taken away? Isn’t it very depressing? I get asked this a lot.
I have my reasons. I’ve loved dystopian fiction ever since I read George Orwell’s 1984 when I was thirteen, and didn’t fully understand what Winston and Julia were doing in that room for rentabove Mr. Charri
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“Now I now understand what I was fightin’ for, Zel. I was fightin’ for a world where I’m free to try some things out, and find out what I really want. I’m fightin’ for a world where people can be honest with each other. That even includes the people who can’t be honest with others. People like me.”
― Discarded Faces
― Discarded Faces
“The greedy bastard, thought Weintî. He knows perfectly well that twenty shekels is the going rate for a female household slave of my age.”
― Mistress of the Topaz
― Mistress of the Topaz
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| Goodreads Sci-Fi/...: Fantasy Author Betty Cross Interview on My Blog Feb. 21st-Giveaway Too | 1 | 3 | Feb 20, 2012 06:52PM |
“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
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“Choose your leaders
with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward
is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool
is to be led
by the opportunists
who control the fool.
To be led by a thief
is to offer up
your most precious treasures
to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask
to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant
is to sell yourself
and those you love
into slavery.”
― Parable of the Talents
with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward
is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool
is to be led
by the opportunists
who control the fool.
To be led by a thief
is to offer up
your most precious treasures
to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask
to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant
is to sell yourself
and those you love
into slavery.”
― Parable of the Talents
“Beware:
At war
Or at peace,
More people die
Of unenlightened self-interest
Than of any other disease.”
― Parable of the Talents
At war
Or at peace,
More people die
Of unenlightened self-interest
Than of any other disease.”
― Parable of the Talents
“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
― Mockingjay
― Mockingjay
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Dear Betty,Thank you so much for being my friend here on GoodReads, which is a fantastic site where one is able to converse with so many likeminded people including readers and authors, writers and book bloggers. I look forward to many future book discussions with you.
Kind Regards
Lucinda x
