The Peripheral (Jackpot #1)
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addicted to nostalgia for things you’d never known.
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who’d looked like a low-key infomercial for an unnamed product.
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we entered into a fixed ratio of duration with their continuum:
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the sheath on the tomahawk was that flesh tone, like orthopedic devices. That was the shade they all preferred, black being considered too dressy.
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She wore a suit as ambiguous as she was, either Savile Row or Jermyn Street,
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“Imperialism,” said Ash. “We’re third-worlding alternate continua.
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“You’ve no more questions?” “Many more, Mr. Netherton. But I prefer to wait for still more of them to arrive.”
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Burton asked, seated behind Tommy, in the Faraday cage where they put prisoners.
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She must have walked past this spot hundreds of times, going to school, then coming back, but it hadn’t been a place. Now, she thought, looking at the lights, the square white tent,
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“that’s where George Orwell had his first publisher.” That annoying thing that tourists did, opening a feed into London’s sea of blue plaques.
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“How did you know,” Netherton asked, “that it would be on its way here?” “The aunties,” said Lowbeer. “Aunties?” “We call them that. Algorithms.