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The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)

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Mr. Palomar by Italo Calvino

In other words, you cannot observe a wave without bearing in mind the complex features that concur in shaping it and the other, equally complex ones that the wave itself originates. These aspects vary constantly, so each wave is different ...more

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by Richard Powers

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by William Gibson

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