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The Deep

by Alma Katsu (Goodreads Author)

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Vigilance by Robert Jackson Bennett

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It makes sense, he thinks, in an Oedipal kind of way: if your children represent all of your most massive failings, you naturally come to subconsciously resent them, to hate them, to desire their punishment. And that was what had ...more

Mr. Splitfoot

by Samantha Hunt

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“I was having an emotion, and I hate that.”
― Martha Wells, Exit Strategy

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“No clear line separates healing from upgrading. Medicine almost always begins by saving people from falling below the norm, but the same tools and know-how can then be used to surpass the norm.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

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“One of the interesting things about programming people of all sorts to be more ethical is that it also makes them more ethical about the limits of programming people to be ethical.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Ancestral Night

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“The bad thing about having emotions is, you know, OH SHIT WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO ME.”
― Martha Wells, Exit Strategy

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“We think of forgiveness as a thing. An incident. A choice. But forgiveness is a process. A long, exhausting process. A series of choices that we have to make over, and over, and over again.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Ancestral Night

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