What was it about English speakers that allowed them to talk into transmitters as if the sky were a diary? If Koreans spoke this way, maybe they’d make more sense to Jun Do. Maybe he’d understand why some people accepted their fates while
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“What you seek, you shall never find. For when the Gods made man, They kept immortality for themselves. Fill your belly. Day and night make merry, Let Days be full of joy. Love the child that holds your hand. Let your wife delight in your embrace. For these alone are the concerns of man. —The Epic of Gilgamesh”
― A Dirty Job
― A Dirty Job
“The more powerful they are, the more they have to lose to their fears.”
― The Three-Body Problem
― The Three-Body Problem
“Let us look within ourselves and search out the dormant warrior.” “Mine is dormant to the point of non-existence, sir.”
― Undermajordomo Minor
― Undermajordomo Minor
“You are a pastel-colored Persian carpet, and loneliness is a Bordeaux wine stain that won’t come out”
― Men Without Women: Stories
― Men Without Women: Stories
“Today’s hard news stories were yesterday’s dystopian SF. Rereading”
― Synners
― Synners
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