Mark

“This episode was brought to you by a letter from Satan, a shitload of numbers, and the popular phrase, Overly Dramatic Fantasy Revenge Sequence.”
― Carlie Martece, Deragon Hex: The Vipdile Key

“Scholars had known for more than fifteen hundred years that the world was large and round. Colón disputed both facts.”
― Charles C. Mann, 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

“It’s an old pirate tradition. Burial at C.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Galactic North

“Menaced by environmental problems, torn by struggles between the tiny coterie of wealthy Spaniards at the center and a teeming, fractious polyglot periphery, battered by a corrupt and inept civic and religious establishment, troubled by a past that it barely understood—to the contemporary eye, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Mexico City looks oddly familiar. In its dystopic way, it was an amazingly contemporary place, unlike any other then on the planet. It was the first twenty-first-century city, the first of today’s modern, globalized megalopolises.”
― Charles C. Mann, 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created