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Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)

by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Goodreads Author)

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Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2) by Octavia E. Butler

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how could they let insane people gain control of devices that could do so much harm? If you knew a man was out of his mind, you restrained him. You didn’t give him power.

Noteworthy in early 2025. We don't retrain or restrict crazy - we vote it into office .

Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)

by James S.A. Corey

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“I can dig my claws into the rim of a building's crown and spread my arms and feel the buffets and gouts of boisterous air and I can close my eyes and remember, for a moment, what it is to fly.”
― China Miéville, Perdido Street Station

tags: flying

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“Attacking me was like pushing open a forbidden door. What waited on the other side was his problem.”
― Lee Child, Jack Reacher's Rules

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“Right now, we need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art. Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximize corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Late in the Day: Poems 2010–2014

tags: art, writing

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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: anti-intellectualism, cult, culture, democracy, ignorance, intellectual, political, politics, united-states, willful-ignorance

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