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The key was never to let yourself look back, unless something was actively chasing you. Even then it was usually better not to know how close it was on your arse.
“She could not envision a God who demanded such particularity of belief, whose mercy and forgiveness were confined to such a precise segment of humankind.”
― The Bird King
― The Bird King
“Spring surprised me, as she always does those of us who remain most of our lives indoors”
― The Best of Gene Wolfe
― The Best of Gene Wolfe
“An oft-told joke: a statistician drowned crossing a river that was only three feet deep on average.”
― The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
― The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
“I don’t make promises or sacrifices or grant wishes or any of those sorts of things. I’m the wrong kind of jinn for that.”
― The Bird King
― The Bird King
“He had heard it said by an exceptionally clever bard that if you tried to number the ways you could die in the Heartwyld you’d be dead before you finished counting.”
― Kings of the Wyld
― Kings of the Wyld
The Western Suburban Sci-Fi Book Club
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A sci-fi book club for nerds, meeting monthly in western Chicagoland. Join us, and together we can rule the galaxy as father and son. You know, metaph ...more
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