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Mark’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Mark’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Mark Cantrell
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Citizen Zero
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2010
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4 editions
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Silas Morlock
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2013
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2 editions
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Deadly Night Shade
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2013
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2 editions
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Deus Ex Insomnia
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2007
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4 editions
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At Death's Door
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2013
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3 editions
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Uranium Fist
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Isolation Space
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2009
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2 editions
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Attack of the 50-Foot Verbose Mutant Killer Fountain Pens From Mars
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2009
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One For The Road
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2013
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On Literature
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2011
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There’s nothing soft about Northern literary power
Ilkley Literature Festival explores 'soft power' and the North's poetic spirit
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“Eric, you need to look at the whole picture," the PM said. "You look at the jobless as a huge pile of scrap and you're looking for what can be recycled. That's good. That's your job. But what you don't realise is that this pile of scrap itself serves a purpose. I need my zeros, Eric. They put fear in people; fear of crime and terrorism. They are a stark reminder to the stakeholders that what they despise today, they may end up joining tomorrow. It keeps them obedient. Remember that!”
― Citizen Zero
― Citizen Zero
“Beyond the queues, the vacancy screens listed jobs in a multitude of languages. Invariably, they were low-paid and short-term dead-ends. Nearby, people in headphones sat at a bank of machines: the blind and the illiterate force-fed with ‘opportunities’ by soothing machine voices. On the far wall, in large print, a poster declared: BEGGARS CANNOT BE CHOOSERS.”
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“In AR, a falling tree makes no sound unless there is a witness to behold the event. Otherwise, it is only a changing pattern in a complex data-stream.”
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“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
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