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Venomous Lumpsucker

by Ned Beauman

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Event Horizon 2017

by Jake Kerr (Goodreads Author)

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Ugly Beauty: Jazz in the 21st Century (Culture, Society & Politics)

by Philip Freeman (Goodreads Author)

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

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“Stars, everywhere. So many stars that I could not for the life me understand how the sky could contain them all yet be so black.”
― Peter Watts, Blindsight

tags: space, stars

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“But there is a truth here; seeing is magical. Looking kills. The longer I looked, the more the magic faded.”
― Ian Macdonald

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