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"So far so good. It seems like a reasonably accurate history." — Oct 29, 2026 07:16PM
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I've read two other of McDevitt's books and they were both good reads.... "The Engines of God" and "Omega". In Omega the characters reference events that occurred during Chindi so I read it to find out what had happened. I found the book to be a very
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“It strikes me that the only real reason to take apart a pocket watch, or a car engine, aside from the simple delight of disassembly, is to find out how it works. To understand it, so you can put it back together again better than before, or build a new one that goes beyond what the old one could do. We’ve been taking apart the superhero for ten years or more; it's time to put it back together and wind it up, time to take it out on the road and floor it, see what it’ll do.”
― Astro City, Vol. 1: Life in the Big City
― Astro City, Vol. 1: Life in the Big City
“It had to be the greatest irony in the history of mankind, he thought. The last Christian in the entire universe was a machine.”
― Off Armageddon Reef
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