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"Where once we reached for God and his angels, now we grasp for beings in spaceships. Both are merely attempts to explain that which we cannot explain, by bailing preemptively from the discussion by means of the magical other or an unverifiable deux ex machina".

"Where once we reached four God and his angels, now we grasp for beings in spaceships. Both are merely attempts to explain that which we cannot explain, by bailing preemptively from the discussion by means of the magical other or an unverifiable deux ex machina".

"Make fun if you like. But to me it's the height of arrogance to dismiss thousands of years of folk knowledge through an evangelical adherence to scientific paradigms that remain theories rather than facts. Our species didn't suddenly start being smart a hundred years ago."

Read the introduction and part of the first chapter and I'm already hooked.

"Lily's head swiveled around, and the look she gave me was both too wise and utterly heartbreaking. "I think she loves me. But she loves herself more. Or how could she do what she does?"