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Fascinating, imaginative, impressively ambitious sci-fi. Emphasis on sci, even if it's nigh-magical at times, especially in the book's final chapters. The fantastic technology is countered by its pervasively dismal voice. A lot of action takes place
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As individuals, they were as worthless as bolts. But organized and manipulated in bulk, they had the same potential as . . . big sacks of bolts. Collectively, they were a really big blunt object that I would be able to hit other nations
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“Complain about your crumbling infrastructure and overzealous Homeland Security all you like, but as least you have a system that theoretically provides both, which is a damn sight better for national morale than knowing you don’t, and that at any moment some Aramis-drenched Visigoth could climb in the window of your bedroom, unzip your torso like a garment bag and eat out your liver with a crab fork.”
― Caligula for President: Better American Living Through Tyranny
― Caligula for President: Better American Living Through Tyranny
“To qualify as a Seeker, it was necessary to show a high serendipity factor. In my experimental behaviour pool as a child, I had exhibited such a factor, and had been selected for special training forthwith. I had taken additional courses in Philosophical, Alpha-humerals, Incidental Tetrachotomy, Apunctual Synchronicity, Homoontogenesis, and other subjects, ultimately qualifying as a Prime Esemplastic Seeker. In other words, I put two and two together in situations where other people were not thinking about addition. I connected. I made wholes greater than parts. Mine was an invaluable profession in a cosmos increasingly full of parts.”
― The 1977 Annual World's Best SF
― The 1977 Annual World's Best SF
“In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.
(Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)”
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(Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)”
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“Heartless reality does not grant humans the lifespan necessary to master every specialty of science, so no one genius in his secret lab can really bring robots, mutants, and clones into the world at his mad whim--it takes a team, masses of funds, and decades. But one man can love all sciences, even if he cannot wield them, and he can inspire children with the model of the mad genius, even if he cannot live it.”
― Too Like the Lightning
― Too Like the Lightning
“You can't throw too much style into a miracle.”
― A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
― A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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For all those planning to read Infinite Jest this summer starting June 21. Support, encouragement and gentle pushes welcome.
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