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"Wake Up America" by Willie Nile (Featuring Steve Earle)

Official video for Willie Nile's "Wake Up America," featuring Steve Earle, from the album The Great Yellow Light. Steve Earle appears courtesy of New West Records. Stock Footage by Storyblocks.

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	Alien Contact by Marty Halpern (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Paul McAuley (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Ernest Hogan (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.79 avg rating — 387 ratings — published 2011 — 8 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
	Live! From Planet Earth: Stories by George Alec Effinger, Marty Halpern (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Michael Bishop (Introduction) 3.92 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2005 — 7 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
	Is Anybody Out There? by Nick Gevers (Editor), Paul McAuley (Goodreads Author) (Introduction), Marty Halpern (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.42 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2010 — 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
	Witpunk by Claude Lalumière (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Marty Halpern (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.08 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2003 — 5 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
	A Thousand Deaths: Stories by George Alec Effinger, Marty Halpern (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mike Resnick (Introduction) 3.86 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2007 — 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 Silver Gryphon by Gary Turner (Editor), Richard Paul Russo (Contributor), James Patrick Kelly (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.40 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2003	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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“like a samurai Jackson Pollock, I scream through my mask and thrash the disgusting little buggers into tinier flying sky-serpents that merrily decorate me, and the canvas on the walls.”
― Marty Halpern, Alien Contact

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“when the form of a practical object was less utilitarian than it might be, then it was art.”
― Marty Halpern, Alien Contact

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“Another annoying thing about frontiers: when they’re not frontiers anymore, the civilizations that move in like to think that the people who came first were stupid.”
― Marty Halpern, Alien Contact

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