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Max Davine
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May 31, 1989
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The LNP are running the Australian government. They might also get a second term.
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Dino Hunt
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Spirits of the Ice Forest
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Mighty Mary
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Terra Domina
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Angel Valence (The Angel, #1)
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2013
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Off The Map
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2014
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The Red Legion
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New York in the Moonlight
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A Patchwork Nation
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The Seven Heightened Sensors
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The new colonials
Since the time of Charlemagne the church has served as an apparatus for colonialism and the first and foremost objective of introducing foreign superstition into materially conquered lands is the reduction of the bodily autonomy and societal security of women. It is so effective because it convinces the majority that what is happening to them is good for them.
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Natalie Bayley's command of language, on masterful display in Bone Rites, is surgical in its precision and makes fast pace of a slow burning tale. Kathryn Darkling is a promising young surgeon who, as a youngster, invokes a protective spell for her b ...more |
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| Rachael Holyhead follows the traditions of Sunday afternoon murder-mysteries with Black Hollow, set in the eponymous fictional English town, but with 380 pages in which to compress what would normally be the cast of a televised serial, the characters ...more | |
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| There are things to like about Faye Murphy's The Dishonest Miss Take. It's an easy read, familiar enough to feel comfortable if a reader is so inclined, and there are some moments of genuine wit to be found amongst the prose that make it stand out am ...more | |
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| There is enormous potential in the eventual plot of M. J. Preston's The Equinox. Unfortunately, it's about a third of the way into the book when the book begins. The story of a small town police force uncovering a gruesome spate of child murders that ...more | |
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| John Skipp's short stories waver between Barker-esq and Burrows-esq - that's William S, not Edgar Rice. Some absurd, some deeply personal, some shocking grotesque. Don't Push the Button could serve as a pastiche of the splatterpunk genre. Perfectly c ...more | |
“I don't believe in respecting women on the grounds that they are women. What's important is not DISRESPECTING them. In my eyes, everyone starts off as a person, what the individual does defines them, regardless of color, race, creed, sexual preference or gender. People need to stop demanding respect. Do something respectable. Yes, the majority of men do play games with women and treat them like machines that if you oil the right way you'll get what you want out of them, and that sucks, but at the same time, as many women act and behave like those very machines. The most admirable thing, I find in my lifetime at least, is just being yourself. It's also the hardest thing to do.”
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“We all need love. Love for ourselves, yes, that's easy, but we also need to love and be loved by someone outside of ourselves. We need to be chosen by someone, and loved by them. Whether or not we get that in this life is irrelevant. It's the needing it that makes us human, not the getting it. As long as we need it, and know we need it, we're fine. It's when we pull the curtain down and say 'no, I can do this on my own', that's when it's all over. Of course it's true to say that, but doing it isn't worth it.”
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“If you took all the killing in Star Wars and replaced it with fucking, you'd have an R-rated movie instead of PG. You ask me what's wrong with society? That's what's fucking wrong with society, that's everything that's wrong with society. From the age we're old enough to watch Star Wars we're told that sexuality is something we should be shy and timid about, while violence makes us heroes. Something we were designed to do is secret and shameful. Something we should never do is how we get things done. Star Wars is a great movie, don't get me wrong, but if you think its more acceptable for children than Looking For Alaska, because of the latter's sexual content, then your view of what it means to be human is seriously disturbed.”
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“The growing warmth of outside bled into Oonban’s mamateek and enticed him out from under his furs. But the age of his body and the shape of his wife beside him kept him down. Chipchowinech lay on her back. Lips slightly parted as a thick lock of graying hair lay across her mouth. Carefully, conscious of his hard and calloused old hands, Oonban reached across and moved the hair out of the way. She stirred and her eyes opened slightly. The sun rose for the second time that day; now in his heart.”
― Spirits of the Ice Forest
― Spirits of the Ice Forest
“The women moved in to carve up the caribou and soon large chunks of its meat were roasting over the fire. The gathered families threw their wood carvings into the fire pit. The little dogwood caribous burned up and the smoke curled up with the sacrificed caribou’s spirit into the night sky where it dimmed the starlight behind a hazy sheen. The men danced and prayed to the departing spirit. In song and dance they said their thanks that it gave its life for their meal. Then they portioned out the meat.”
― Spirits of the Ice Forest
― Spirits of the Ice Forest
“The haunting bellow of the sentry horns sounded across the Greenland Fjords as the night mists settled between the jagged, rocky, half-frozen shores. Ifar the Shepherd hurried from his flock. Beyond the coast skirted by his grazing land he could see the shadowy shape of the incoming knarr as it pushed through the deepening fog. Slowly the masts emerged above it. Ifar turned toward the hilltop. There stood the magnificent earthen Mead Hall of King Lief, son of Eirik the Red. Though the karls who worked the lands already came running from the fishing houses and the farms and the lumber sites, Ifar could not pass up the opportunity. He gathered his horn from hip and blew with all his might.”
― Spirits of the Ice Forest
― Spirits of the Ice Forest
“Then my sentence remains death and I will take it.’ Freydis said. ‘As a skjoldmoy, with a battle-axe in my hand. But I will make Valhalla a place on earth before it happens. I will make Vinland the gates to all of the Nordic Empire and they will be open for all eternity to those persecuted by these one-God heathens, wherever they may be.”
― Spirits of the Ice Forest
― Spirits of the Ice Forest
“The Pale Ones are demons,’ Wobee said. ‘Does your fire crackle with the tears of Mammasumit’s family? Does it sing to you the screams of his women as they were set upon and taken as slaves? Come more Pale Ones. Come enough that they cover the ocean. If the Great River runs red, it will be with their blood and mine.”
― Spirits of the Ice Forest
― Spirits of the Ice Forest
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