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Far Future
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If the floating cultura contained its fair share and then some of subsidized children of fortune, wealthy sybarites, refugees from ennui, and their attendant parasitic organisms, did these not serve as a communal matrix for the merchants, artists, scientist, aesthetes, and pilgrims who travelled among the stars for higher purposes? In ancient days, the courts of monarchs served as similar distillations of the more rarefied essences of human culture; these too were gilded cages filled with self-p
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― The Void Captain's Tale
― The Void Captain's Tale
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We stood in the sunlight, staring into the room. The fountain looked dulled, more bone than pearl, more wear and tear than contortion--puppets lose their charm when the master is in view.
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― The Triangle Age
― The Triangle Age
