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“I know writers who use subtext, and they're all cowards.”
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“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”
― Count Zero
― Count Zero
“Somewhere in our Darkest Nights we made up a story about a Man who will never let us down.”
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“My books always say something, even if it’s just something simple like: 'Don’t genetically engineer crabs to be as big as men.”
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“We have no idea, now, of who or what the inhabitants of our future might be. In that sense, we have no future. Not in the sense that our grandparents had a future, or thought they did. Fully imagined cultural futures were the luxury of another day, one in which 'now' was of some greater duration. For us, of course, things can change so abruptly, so violently, so profoundly, that futures like our grandparents' have insufficient 'now' to stand on. We have no future because our present is too volatile. ... We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition”
― Pattern Recognition
― Pattern Recognition
Petra’s 2025 Year in Books
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