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A Short Stay in Hell

by Steven L. Peck (Goodreads Author)

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American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

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A torn playbill from Les Misérables tumbles down the cracked, urine-stained sidewalk. A streetlamp burns out. Someone in a Jean-Paul Gaultier topcoat takes a piss in an alleyway. Steam rises from below the streets, billowing up in tendrils, ...more

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“In a 2002 interview with Science Fiction Weekly magazine, when asked:

Excession is particularly popular because of its copious detail concerning the Ships and Minds of the Culture, its great AIs: their outrageous names, their dangerous senses of humour. Is this what gods would actually be like?

Banks replied:

If we're lucky.”
― Iain Banks

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“You people are polite to the point of it becoming worse than any direct insult. All this pussy-footing, mealy-mouthed bullshit, dancing around each other after-you-no-after-you-no-after-you!' He Waved his arms around as his voice rose to a shout. ' I hate this hopeless congealment of fucking good manners! Can't anyone just do something?”
― Iain M. Banks, Look to Windward

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