Jonathon Conley

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Book cover for Sea of Tranquility
What inspired Edwin to speak just then? He found himself dwelling on the matter years later, at war, in the terminal horror and boredom of the trenches. Sometimes you don’t know you’re going to throw a grenade until you’ve already pulled ...more
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Ray Nayler
“The great and terrible thing about humankind is simply this: we will always do what we are capable of.”
Ray Nayler, The Mountain in the Sea

John J. Ratey
“An imbalance of these neurotransmitters is why some people with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) come across as stress junkies. They have to get stressed to focus. It’s one of the primary factors in procrastination. People learn to wait until the Sword of Damocles is ready to fall—it’s only then, when stress unleashes norepinephrine and dopamine, that they can sit down and do the work. A need for stress also explains why ADHD patients sometimes seem to shoot themselves in the foot.”
John J. Ratey, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

Ted Chiang
“In the Principia Mathematica, Bertrand Russell and Alfred Whitehead attempted to give a rigorous foundation to mathematics using formal logic as their basis. They began with what they considered to be axioms, and used those to derive theorems of increasing complexity. By page 362, they had established enough to prove “1 + 1 = 2.”
Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

Ken Liu
“senescence”
Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

Valeria Luiselli
“Did you travel with anyone you knew?” All children travel with a paid coyote. Some of them travel also with siblings, cousins, and friends. Sometimes, when our children fall asleep again, I look back at them, or hear them breathe, and wonder if they would survive in the hands of coyotes and what would happen to them if they were deposited at the U.S. border, left either on their own or in the custody of Border Patrol officers. Were they to find themselves alone, crossing borders and countries, would my own children survive?”
Valeria Luiselli, Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions

138167 Red Rising Society — 1415 members — last activity Sep 22, 2025 03:13AM
Howlers and Helldivers wanted for the first fan club for the Red Rising trilogy by Pierce Brown. Celebrate all colors of the Society from the superior ...more
105387 Ask Pierce Brown — 1270 members — last activity Jun 08, 2025 10:14PM
RED RISING is my debut novel. If you have questions. If you have comments. If you have loads of concerns. I have the time.
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