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Ned Beauman
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JAPAN, MAY 2026In the three years since my first trip to...
JAPAN, MAY 2026
In the three years since my first trip to Japan, there has been extensive coverage of Japan's overtourism problem – how even the famous Japanese hospitality, as robust as one of their earthquake-proof towers, is finally starting to buckle under the sheer weight of numbers – how visiting Japan is now such a cliché for the Perfection set that the really cool peopl Read more of this blog post »
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High-Rise
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Venomous Lumpsucker
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The Teleportation Accident
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2012
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Boxer, Beetle
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Glow
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Madness is Better than Defeat
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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection
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[Boxer, Beetle: A Novel] [By: Beauman, Ned] [September, 2011]
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“You couldn’t truly love anything if you didn’t hate at least something. Indeed, perhaps you couldn’t truly love anything if you didn’t hate almost everything.”
― The Teleportation Accident
― The Teleportation Accident
“He realised at once that a mistake had been made: he had been sent the wrong hangover. Somewhere in northern Rhodesia there was a bull elephant who had got drunk on fermented marula fruit, rampaged through a nearby village, and fallen asleep in a ditch, and was now pleasantly surprised to find itself greeting the day with only the mild headache that follows a couple of bottles of good red wine… Perhaps if he got in touch with the relevant authorities he could get this unfortunate little mix-up corrected, but he would have to do so without moving his head or opening his eyes. Otherwise he would die from the pain.”
― The Teleportation Accident
― The Teleportation Accident
“What does it do?" said Loeser.
"You feel as if you're being sucked down this fathomless, gloomy tunnel. Or to put it another way, it's as if all the different weights and cares of the world have been lifted from your shoulders to he replaced by a single, much larger sort of consolidated weight. Your limbs stop working and you can't really talk. If you take enough then it can last for hours and hours, but it seems like even longer because time slows down." Hildkraut smiled wistfully. "It's fantastic." At their feet, somebody groaned softly as if in enthusiastic assent. "And it makes Wagner sound really good.”
― The Teleportation Accident
"You feel as if you're being sucked down this fathomless, gloomy tunnel. Or to put it another way, it's as if all the different weights and cares of the world have been lifted from your shoulders to he replaced by a single, much larger sort of consolidated weight. Your limbs stop working and you can't really talk. If you take enough then it can last for hours and hours, but it seems like even longer because time slows down." Hildkraut smiled wistfully. "It's fantastic." At their feet, somebody groaned softly as if in enthusiastic assent. "And it makes Wagner sound really good.”
― The Teleportation Accident
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