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Book cover for Victory City
“Yes?” Bukka urged him on. “What’s in the second place?” “In the second place,” Hukka said slowly, “we have to decide which one of the two of us is going to be king first, and who will be in the second place.” “Well,” Bukka said, hopefully, ...more
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Octavia E. Butler
“Jarret’s supporters are more than a little seduced by Jarret’s talk of making America great again. He seems to be unhappy with certain other countries. We could wind up in a war. Nothing like a war to rally people around flag, country, and great leader.”
Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“He believed in good omens and positive thoughts and happy endings to films, a trouble-free belief, because he had not considered them deeply before choosing to believe; he just simply believed.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

Stephen Baxter
“There were no more nations, but there were neighbourhoods, regions, zones, and a hierarchy of councils, parliaments and congresses: talking shops, all the way up to some kind of world-government council. This system was what they called the Common Heritage. He wondered vaguely if this had evolved from a form of emergency organisation in the refugee days – the ‘Chaos’ – maybe built on some elements of the old UN.”
Stephen Baxter, World Engines: Destroyer: A post climate change high concept science fiction odyssey

Milan Kundera
“Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.”
Milan Kundera
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Octavia E. Butler
“A lot of people seem to believe in a big-daddy-God or a big-cop-God or a big-king-God. They believe in a kind of super-person. A few believe God is another word for nature. And nature turns out to mean just about anything they happen not to understand or feel in control of.”
Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

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