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"Nobody else builds worlds as effortlessly (for the reader) as Wells does. She's found elegant ways of explaining geography, culture, history and backstory
The little touches of humor, irony, sarcasm are priceless" — Nov 05, 2025 02:10PM
"Nobody else builds worlds as effortlessly (for the reader) as Wells does. She's found elegant ways of explaining geography, culture, history and backstory
The little touches of humor, irony, sarcasm are priceless" — Nov 05, 2025 02:10PM
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Perhaps the point of this book is its size (about 600 pgs) - Tidhar wanted to *really* drive home the point that "SF" exists in many other languages and cultures, more than most readers would think. Okay... A second large point of the book is an appe ...more "
“Another To Echo”
How beautiful you must be
to have been able to lead me
this far with only
the sound of your going away
heard once at a time and then
remembered in silence
when the time was gone
you whom I have never seen
o forever invisible one
whom I have never mistaken
for another voice
nor hesitated to follow
beyond precept and prudence
over seas and deserts
you incomparable one
for whom the waters fall
and the winds search
and the words were made
listening
— W.S. Merwin, The Moon Before Morning (Copper Canyon Press, 2014)”
― The Moon Before Morning
How beautiful you must be
to have been able to lead me
this far with only
the sound of your going away
heard once at a time and then
remembered in silence
when the time was gone
you whom I have never seen
o forever invisible one
whom I have never mistaken
for another voice
nor hesitated to follow
beyond precept and prudence
over seas and deserts
you incomparable one
for whom the waters fall
and the winds search
and the words were made
listening
— W.S. Merwin, The Moon Before Morning (Copper Canyon Press, 2014)”
― The Moon Before Morning
“Politicians are like weather vanes. Our job is to make the wind blow.”
― Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run: A Call to Those Who Would Save the Earth
― Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run: A Call to Those Who Would Save the Earth
“you die without knowing
whether anything you wrote was any good
if you have to be sure don't write”
― Migration: New and Selected Poems
whether anything you wrote was any good
if you have to be sure don't write”
― Migration: New and Selected Poems
“There is no pain in my life that has not been given value by the alchemy of creative attention.”
― Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
― Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
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