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When, in 1970, palaeontologist Lambert Beverley Halstead pointed out that Scrotum is a scientifically valid name and the first ever proposed for a dinosaur, a shudder went through the normally stolid taxonomic community. Things may not have
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― The Bone Witch
― The Bone Witch
“Well… I want to get better,” he said quietly. “So whatever you can do for me, that’d just be great, okay? I don’t like not knowing where I am or what’s going on or—it feels like falling. I’m off-balance and I don’t like it. I know I could just ask people until I know everything but I want… I just want everything back, that’s all. So how do I get it back?” “Well,”
― Chameleon Moon
― Chameleon Moon
“Yes. They had the guts to believe that the universe was big enough to hold things so strange—thinking things—and that we had to learn from them.” It gave me a lot to think about. Maybe it takes a little craziness to make humanity grow. Maybe if you see a Face where telescopes can’t see it, you’re for real seeing humanity’s dreams. Mother surprised”
― Mars Girls -- A YA Science Fiction Adventure Novel
― Mars Girls -- A YA Science Fiction Adventure Novel
“Nanoannie didn’t like this. Parents are not supposed to die. Krona and Escudo would definitely not allow themselves to be murdered. “But why be negative? Let’s assume they’re alive and try to figure where they went.”
― Mars Girls -- A YA Science Fiction Adventure Novel
― Mars Girls -- A YA Science Fiction Adventure Novel
“By now, the smell had become like another person in the room. I had an image of it dancing around me in a shiny seventies disco outfit and John Travolta hair.”
― It Came from the North: An Anthology of Finnish Speculative Fiction
― It Came from the North: An Anthology of Finnish Speculative Fiction
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