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“a man of no religion, who dares use pain as a weapon, tainting it for mundane things”
― The Jaguar House, in Shadow
― The Jaguar House, in Shadow
“Art that's blind to the true landscape we inhabit - physical reality in the widest sense - is just absurdly, pathetically blinkered and myopic.
So while I'm sure that the individual works I've written have only succeeded to varying degrees, I'm still proud to have done something to nudge the center of gravity of contemporary SF some microscopic distance towards a genuine engagement with reality." -Greg Egan”
― Greg Egan
So while I'm sure that the individual works I've written have only succeeded to varying degrees, I'm still proud to have done something to nudge the center of gravity of contemporary SF some microscopic distance towards a genuine engagement with reality." -Greg Egan”
― Greg Egan
“it was still the pre-eminent social networking site for the 0-3 age group”
― Oceanic
― Oceanic
“Stripping's bad form, these days," he said. "It's lost all meaning. People do it just to punctuate a conversation.”
― Schismatrix Plus
― Schismatrix Plus
“Death never gave meaning to life: it was always the other way round.”
― Oceanic
― Oceanic
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