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a canon of dramatic themes and literary plots which appear regularly in the literatures of the Global North, but which, if they were to appear in the literatures of the Global South, would be called ‘magic realism’ or ‘folklore’;
“he was writing elaborate decryption programs by eight, and when he was ten, he invented a shoe camera to film up the skirts of girls.”
― Magna Flamingo
― Magna Flamingo
“She watched us go with envious fear.”
― The Big Book of Science Fiction
― The Big Book of Science Fiction
“A man approached death rather decently in the Air Forces. He died well-fed and clean-shaven, if that was any comfort. He was at the front only a few hours of the day, instead of day and night for months on end. In the evening he came back to something approximating a home and fireside. He still had some acquaintance with an orderly life, even though he might be living in a tent. But in the infantry a soldier had to become half beast in order to survive.”
― Brave Men
― Brave Men
“Poor critter, Doc thought. Marooned here like Robinson Crusoe. And we’re the cannibal savages.”
― Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2012 edition
― Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2012 edition
“At the beach hut they’d been human, a woman, a man, a wife and mother and daughter and a husband and father and son, and they’d crossed themselves, tapped their nails and bitten their lips in unconscious angst. But when they’d got to the launch pad they were Hollywood and sci-fi, Space Odyssey and Disney, imagineered, branded and ready. The rocket peaked in a cap of gleaming newness, absolute and spectacular whiteness and newness, and the sky was a glorious and conquerable blue.”
― Orbital
― Orbital
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