Spin (Spin, #1)
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I gathered up my luggage and staggered barefoot into the starry night.
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Nice sentence
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Molly Seagram
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Mrs. Tuckman
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“patient continues to complain of nervousness, fears for future.” Didn’t we all fear for the future?
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Haha
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CVWS—cardiovascular wasting syndrome—
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The whole world was reeling with anxiety.
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no future but the Spin.
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in third world nations, where collapsing currencies and recurrent famine helped revive slumbering Marxist and militant Islamic movements.
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only those who have lost faith in the future are likely to show up at work with an automatic rifle and a hit list.
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For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom.
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there is hardly an area of Spin study his ideas haven’t touched and transformed.
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A cheap shot, too hackneyed, and within the story and character, E.D. doesn’t need to do that.
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both major parties had spun off radical factions.
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Suddenly it’s okay for a major media outlet to take shots at Perihelion.”
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a monument to the human ability to squeeze profit from a global catastrophe.”
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How? With E.D. and Jason calling the shots?
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Molly turned out to be smart, sly, cynical, and better company than I had expected.
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An ace! (asexual)
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in many ways Jason Lawton, like Perihelion itself, remains under the stifling influence of his father.
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I seem to have lost the memory. Lost it to time, lost it to the reconstruction.
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a child. A horribly burned child in desperate need of a skin graft: that was my first impression.
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Simile triple
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The creature
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Wun Ngo Wen,
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colonists we had dispatched only two years ago.
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To solve the proportion 5.5:500,000,000 = 2:X for X, you can cross multiply. 5.5 * X = 2 * 500,000,000 (per Jason, p. 40) Solving this equation gives: 5.5X = 1,000,000,000 X = 1,000,000,000 / 5.5 X ≈ 181,818,182 Therefore, X is approximately 181,818,182.
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a Sparkmonth
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the Kirioloj River,
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his Fourth Age
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he was trained to represent the Five Republics on a diplomatic mission to Earth.
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The Martians were conservators by nature, hoarders by instinct.
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boxlike structures quietly constructing themselves hundreds of miles above the Martian poles—Hypothetical artifacts, nearly identical to the ones associated with the Earth.
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After a hundred thousand years of undisturbed solitude,
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A hundred thousand relative to what? See note p. 144 re: “colonists we had dispatched only two years ago.”
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the crude iron-and-ceramic multistage rocket
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No metals?
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both human worlds:
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Dreadful as death might be,
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his brooding custodianship of a tiny machine falling endlessly throu...
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Animal Disease Center on Plum Island,
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Embermonth
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Huld of Phraya,
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Haha I’ll bet.
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the two human worlds.
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Haha - Stranger in a Strange Land - Heinlein’s protgnist was a Martian too.
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the brute craziness of the times.
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Dionysian cults sprang up everywhere in the western world,
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It was the Tribulation reconfigured as Elizabethan drama.
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Haha Simile metaphor
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