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No lethal radiation but plenty of incipient panic.
Simile
Chilling
the Spin was ultimately an act of salvation, the last and best chapter in human history.
not discovered but remembered.
Even the tang of her fear was familiar.
The sky sparked with stra...
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Not the unadulterated light of the Spinning universe, which would have ...
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Instead it was a series of snapshots of the sky, consecutive midnights compre...
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afterimages fading like the pop of a flashbulb; then the same sky a century...
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Simile
Stars were created and stars were demolished with every breath of summer air.
Chilling
Simile
There is a prejudice imposed on us by our brief window of consciousness:
a stone may fall but is not alive, and orbital motion is only the same falling indefinitely prolonged.
a dance of attraction and velocity, beautiful but frightening.
I’ve made promises and I have a faith and those things put certain boundaries on my life.”
“A faith. Tell me you don’t believe in this shit.” She stood up, frowning. “Maybe I don’t,” she said. “But maybe I need to be around someone who does.”
The Martian drug
Simile
the Arch.
the Chaykin administration
Because of the drug, of course, and more important the several digital copies of the Martian archives we were carrying.
Jason’s last...
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knowledge only Jason had possessed.
Dreams, Diane once said, are metaphors gone feral.
Simile ouch
anodyne
Follow the drinking gourd.
Question
His moves were sometimes tentative but never uncertain. He worked like an artist or an athlete—nuanced, knowing, conscious of his own limitations.
Simile extended
Haha simile
Haha
Maori tattoos
Haha simile
network
Within the hour he was consulting a group of West Coast gearheads who modified small engines for remote-control robotics competitions. By midnight he had rigged temporary repairs for the mower’s dozen infirmities.
sneaked
Haha
Simile double, extended
Simile
raindrops spitting
Simile ouch
Simile
networks
networks
net...
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Seattle,
five years after the failed Chinese missile attack:
Harborview ER.
