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Hark! the Herald Angels Scream

by Christopher Golden (Goodreads Author)

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kim’s Quotes

“Even drunk, I knew any escape plan that involved going to Detroit, Michigan, was a harbinger of doom.”
― Mat Johnson, Pym

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“Here is my objection to submarines and space travel: not enough windows. What difference does it make if you're in outer space or underwater, or wherever, if you can't feel, or hear, or see or smell it?”
― Karen Joy Fowler, What I Didn't See, and Other Stories

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“At some point on your road you have to turn and start walking back towards yourself. Or the past will pursue you, and bite the nape of your neck, leave you bleeding in the ditch. Better to turn and face it with such weapons as you possess.”
― Hilary Mantel, Beyond Black

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“Nobody, anywhere, has any real sense what is actually going on." This doesn't seem to get a very good reaction from the crowd - no doubt I'm scowling as I say it, but still. I continue: "I don't either, but at least I know I don't. I'm sorry but you people aren't like me." This is me trying to take the edge off. Being friendly. "You haven't done the shit I've done.”
― Patrick Somerville, The Universe in Miniature in Miniature

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“We all love after-the-bomb stories. If we didn't, why would there be so many of them? There's something attractive about all those people being gone, about wandering in a depopulated world, scrounging cans of Campbell's pork and beans, defending one's family from marauders. But some secret part of us thinks it would be good to survive. All those other folks will die. That's what after-the-bomb stories are all about.”
― John Varley

tags: fiction, post-apocalypse, sci-fi, survival

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