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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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“Why is some accident of uncontrolled neurochemistry the ‘real me,’ and a carefully reasoned system of priorities somehow false?”
― Mishell Baker, Borderline

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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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“I'm all right," I told her. This is a lie, when you're twelve. And all the other years, too.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Mapping the Interior

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“I am unflappable,” Laurence told the bus driver. Who shrugged, as if he’d thought so too, once upon a time, until someone had flapped him.”
― Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky

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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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