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All it took was for a lot of seemingly decent people to put the wrong person in power, and then pay for their innocent choice.
“That word means something else, you know,” his father had told him once, when Mission had spoken of revolution. “It also means to go around and around. To revolve. One revolution, and you get right back to where you started.”
“When there’s only God to blame, we forgive him. When it’s our fellow man, we destroy him.”
“And how much simpler things would be, how much better for us all, if we had people brave enough to do what was right, instead.”
Often, it was the man with the most promises who got the chits, not the one who made people better.
humanity had been thrown to the brink of extinction by insane men in positions of power following one another, each thinking the others knew where they were going.
The shadow spoke of a culture forming that overvalued individuality, of children that wanted to get away from their families, of generations living levels apart and independence stressed until no one relied on anyone and everyone was dispensable.
Did these men see themselves as deck hands on some great ark with a noble purpose? Or were they walking in circles simply because they knew the way?
evil men arose from evil systems, and that any man had the potential to be perverted. Which was why some systems needed to come to an end.
The hard things got easier the more you did them. It didn’t make it anymore fun to do the hard things, though.
We readers have a strange relationship with the books we love. We want more of our favorite tales, but please make them different from each other, but please don’t fuck them up, and please give us lots, but please don’t go on forever, and please end thousands of pages in a way that’s super tidy and satisfying and give us exactly what we expect, but don’t let us see it coming. Good luck.
Yessss… please.
Shift gave me a chance to do something that I think most authors are wise to avoid, but that I really wanted as a reader. I wanted to know how the post-apocalyptic world got the way it was. I wanted a solid explanation that was also engaging and entertaining. I wanted to believe that this could happen. And I wanted to know whom to blame.
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