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Jack van Riel

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Automatic Noodle

by Annalee Newitz (Goodreads Author)

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Penric’s Fox (Penric and Desdemona, #5)

by Lois McMaster Bujold (Goodreads Author)

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The Valley of Bones

by Oliver Hulme

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Jack’s Quotes

“Your goal is not to write a perfect chapter. It is to write an imperfect book.”
― John Scalzi, When the Moon Hits Your Eye

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“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer

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“No one expected me. Everything awaited me.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

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“Hours passed, like a kidney stone.”
― T. Kingfisher, Clockwork Boys

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