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Simon Townsend,
Quentin Tarantino spirituality.
Haha simile metaphor
Diane
Simile extended
Jordan Tabernacle,
Haha
a “disengagement” church;
Or risk meeting the Rapture in an impure condition.
Diane never advocated these ideas—
but she deferred to them, left them carefull...
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“Simon’s more devout than I am. I envy him that.
Simon can give himself to God in a way I can’t.”
Haha snark
Put it in God’s hands and it’ll work out right.” “But you’re too smart to believe that.” “Am I? Oh, Tyler, I hope not. I hope that isn’t true.”
Haha great simile
“We’re all mortal, but we used to have the consolation of knowing the human species would go on without us.” “But species are mortal, too.
“I just think there are better ways to live out the end of the world.” But she wouldn’t say what those better ways were.
now there was a Martian living on campus—
and that was a secret difficult to keep.
Haha
Haha simile
The Martian biological sciences are considerably in advance of ours.”
“He thinks he might be able to help.”
the Martian archives—
we all had to grab something or be lost. Diane had grabbed faith, Jason had grabbed science. And I had grabbed Jason and Diane.
Wun Ngo Wen
Haha
Haha simile
One of the first things your people did was to sequence my genome. It’s indistinguishable from your own.”
there was something comforting about Wun’s presence, a communicable ease.
“No number is large enough to substitute for memory.
Haha
Haha simile
Voy Voyud.
murkuds.
there were agricultural machines among the crops, graceful black harvesters.
Kirioloj Province,
about 38% of the gravity of Earth (the moon is about 16.7%)
Simile OMG
Mars, a planet long freighted with our own reckless imagination.
Burroughs,
W...
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Bradb...
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H.G. Wells 1895-98
Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912
Ray Bradbury 1950
Robert A Heinlein 1961
Red Mars.
Kim Stanley Robinson 1992 (Red Mars won the BSFA Award in 1992 and Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1993. Green Mars won the Hugo Award for Best Novel and Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 1994. Blue Mars also won the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1997.)
Haha
Jason
E. D. Lawton.”
