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Matthew S. Williams
Goodreads Author
Born
in Ottawa, Canada
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Influences
Member Since
April 2011
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/houseofwilliams
My second review has come in! And this one comes from my friend and colleague Rami Ungar. While we are friends and fellow-writers, I can always count on him to be honest. I tell you, I owe this guy several reads and reviews at this point! In any case, here’s what he had to say (like I said, honest!):
A deep and action-packed follow-up
Read more of this blog post »I received an eARC from the publisher and was eager to rea...
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Whiskey Delta
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2013
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The Cronian Incident (The Formist #1)
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Flash Forward
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2014
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Papa Zulu
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2014
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3 editions
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Liability
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2011
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Smartbomb
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2011
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Flight of the Icarus
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2011
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Source
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2011
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6 editions
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Domicile 4.5
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2012
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Legacies
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2006
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2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1):
"this is a much much much much later addition: 11.10.18. 2001:a space odyssey, read at least 5 times over decades. yes perhaps i should write this as a dedicated single review, but i have not bothered to learn how to do that, and even now must say..."
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Matthew Williams
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Scout wrote: "Unproved allegations of sexual misconduct have recently ruined the careers of several men in the public eye, some of those allegations g
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Was George Orwell against socialism itself or agains Stalin's rule?
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Ruby wrote: "Matthew wrote: "Ruby wrote: "Unless we believe that Labour Party was and still is really for the working class, and by that I don't mean
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J.J. wrote: "Congress will approve it. They're in a box on this one. The alternative is no deal, and that will be on them, not Trump.
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“There are no injuries that run so deep that one can't add insult to them and make them feel even worse.”
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“I love science fiction, always have, always will. But it’s the kind of science fiction that I love which I think is an important distinction.”
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“It was unhealthy to get too attached. Such things were best reserved for people who had a life expectancy”
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| Modern Good Reads: What are you writing right now? | 33 | 52 | Mar 27, 2017 03:18PM | |
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“When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written.”
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“Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.”
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“The difference between stupid and intelligent people – and this is true whether or not they are well-educated – is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. ”
― The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
― The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
“Ronald Reagan has a stack of three-by-five cards in his lap. He skids up a new one: "What advice do you, as the youngest American fighting man ever to win both the Navy Cross and the Silver Star, have for any young marines on their way to Guadalcanal?"
Shaftoe doesn't have to think very long. The memories are still as fresh as last night's eleventh nighmare: ten plucky Nips in Suicide Charge!
"Just kill the one with the sword first."
"Ah," Reagan says, raising his waxed and penciled eyebrows, and cocking his pompadour in Shaftoe's direction. "Smarrrt--you target them because they're the officers, right?"
"No, fuckhead!" Shaftoe yells. "You kill 'em because they've got fucking swords! You ever had anyone running at you waving a fucking sword?”
― Cryptonomicon
Shaftoe doesn't have to think very long. The memories are still as fresh as last night's eleventh nighmare: ten plucky Nips in Suicide Charge!
"Just kill the one with the sword first."
"Ah," Reagan says, raising his waxed and penciled eyebrows, and cocking his pompadour in Shaftoe's direction. "Smarrrt--you target them because they're the officers, right?"
"No, fuckhead!" Shaftoe yells. "You kill 'em because they've got fucking swords! You ever had anyone running at you waving a fucking sword?”
― Cryptonomicon
“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.
The Economist, December 4, 2003”
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The Economist, December 4, 2003”
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I don't want to argue with that Bill guy anymore about definitions because all I can do is point to a dictionary and if that isn't proof enough, he wins I guess because there will never be better proof. So I give up on that, I have no way to win when logic is ignored.But I would like to point out how interesting it is that a user commenting in a thread about 1984 seems to be practicing doublethink. Refusing to acknowledge that his definition is incorrect even when confronted with so much evidence. Big Brother has just raised your chocolate ration from 30 grammes to 20 ;)
Judyta wrote: "Thank you for accepting my invitation :-)"Hey, no problem, always interesting in swapping ideas! Especially with a fellow historian.
