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Vampires of El Norte

by Isabel Cañas (Goodreads Author)

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The Big Book of Cyberpunk

by Jared Shurin (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: published-2023, tbr-own-physical, currently-reading, 2024, read-physical

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Apr 07, 2024 04:20PM

“I am only now, at the wrong end of three centuries after loss of contact, beginning to realise just how broken my own superior culture actually was. They set us here to make exhaustive anthropological notes on the fall of every sparrow. But not to catch a single one of them. To know, but very emphatically not to care.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Elder Race

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“I was a trapped animal. Not trapped by the women, the house, or tradition. I was trapped by life. Like I had been a free spirit for millennia and then one day something snatched me up, something violent and angry and vengeful, and I was pulled into the body that I now resided in.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death

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“They took everything and ground it down to dust as fine as gunpowder, they fired their guns into the air in victory and the strays flew out into the nothingness of histories written wrong and meant to be forgotten. Stray bullets and consequences are landing on our unsuspecting bodies even now.”
― Tommy Orange, There There

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“he didn’t want to grow up. Adulthood had no benefits that he could see and he was loath to join that cruel population.”
― Patrick deWitt, French Exit

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“B'gwus is famous because of his wide range of homes. In some places, he's called Bigfoot. In other places, he's Yeti, or the Abominable Snowman, or Sasquatch. To most people, he is the equivalent of the Loch Ness monster, something silly to bring the tourist in. His image is even used to sell beer, and he is portrayed as a laid-back kind of guy, lounging on mountaintops in patio chairs, cracking open a frosty one.”
― Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach

tags: advertising-humor, canadian-fiction, culture-making, mythical-creatures

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