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David Marusek
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Counting Heads (Counting Heads, #1)
— published 2005 — 9 editions |
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Mind Over Ship
— published 2009 — 4 editions |
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Getting to Know You
— published 2007 — 5 editions |
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She Was Good--She Was Funny
— published 2011 — 2 editions |
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My Morning Glory and other flashes of absurd science fiction
— published 2012 |
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The Wedding Album
— published 2012 |
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Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology
by James Patrick Kelly (Goodreads Author), John Kessel, Pat Cadigan (Goodreads Author) — published 2007 — 3 editions |
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The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction
by Gardner R. Dozois , William Gibson , John Kessel — published 2005 — 8 editions |
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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection
by Gardner R. Dozois , David Marusek (Goodreads Author) , Frederik Pohl — published 2000 — 5 editions |
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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection
by Gardner R. Dozois , Ursula K. Le Guin , Maureen F. McHugh — published 1996 — 3 editions |
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“…I tell you that loneliness itself is the secret. It’s a secret you cannot tell anyone. Why?
Because to confess your loneliness is to confess your failure as a human being. To confess would only cause others to pity and avoid you, afraid that what you have is catching. Your condition is caused by a lack of human relationship, and yet to admit to it only drives your possible rescuers farther away (while attracting cats).
So you attempt to hide your loneliness in public, to behave, in fact, as though you have too many friends already, and thus you hope to attract people who will unwittingly save you. But it never works that way. Your condition is written all over your face, in the hunch of your shoulders, in the hollowness of your laugh. You fool no one.
Believe me in this; I’ve tried all the tricks of the lonely man.”
― David Marusek
Because to confess your loneliness is to confess your failure as a human being. To confess would only cause others to pity and avoid you, afraid that what you have is catching. Your condition is caused by a lack of human relationship, and yet to admit to it only drives your possible rescuers farther away (while attracting cats).
So you attempt to hide your loneliness in public, to behave, in fact, as though you have too many friends already, and thus you hope to attract people who will unwittingly save you. But it never works that way. Your condition is written all over your face, in the hunch of your shoulders, in the hollowness of your laugh. You fool no one.
Believe me in this; I’ve tried all the tricks of the lonely man.”
― David Marusek
“The person who works for recognition devalues the work he does, that awards are first and foremost political instruments, that altruism's true name is always Anonymous.”
― David Marusek, Mind Over Ship
― David Marusek, Mind Over Ship
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