Apatt

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“And your oil engines are just a deplorable perversion – dirty, noisy, poisonous, and the cars you drive with them are barbarous, dangerous...”
Chocky in "Chocky”
― John Wyndham, Chocky

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“I felt like a kid at Santa Claus's funeral.”
― David Gerrold, The Man Who Folded Himself

tags: disappointment

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“Everything came and went, everything was new and bright with promise once and old and worn out later, and everything left a small, diminishing stain on eternity, a mark that time would eventually erase.”
― Alastair Reynolds, House of Suns

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“I would put it this way. There are objects for which we have found uses. We use them, but almost certainly not the way the visitors use them. I am positive that in the vast majority of cases we are hammering nails with microscopes.”
― Arkady Strugatsky

tags: science

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“You must have minimalism because every change, any change, has myriad side effects that can’t always be allowed for. If the change is too great and the side effects too many, then it becomes certain that the outcome will be far removed from anything you’ve planned and that it would be entirely unpredictable.”
― Isaac Asimov, Forward the Foundation

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A flash group read means grab it quick, read it quick, pop in often. Tor has a sample chapter of The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet here: http://w ...more

Reddit SF Book Club — 182 members — last activity Jan 09, 2015 09:47AM
A bookclub set up to discuss books about ideas. Please feel free to visit the Reddit SF Bookclub to open a discussion or post links pertaining to the ...more

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The International League of Super Reviewers is a group dedicated to defending the earth against alien menaces and super-villains by writing superior b ...more