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The Mercy of Gods (The Captive's War, #1)

by James S.A. Corey (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: cerebral, space-opera, science-fiction, currently-reading

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Bill’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)

Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1) by James S.A. Corey

4 notes & 2 highlights

Canterbury - retooled colony transport

Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2)

by Octavia E. Butler

1 note & 1 highlight

Bill’s Quotes

“Attacking me was like pushing open a forbidden door. What waited on the other side was his problem.”
― Lee Child, Jack Reacher's Rules

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“I can dig my claws into the rim of a building's crown and spread my arms and feel the buffets and gouts of boisterous air and I can close my eyes and remember, for a moment, what it is to fly.”
― China Miéville, Perdido Street Station

tags: flying

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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: anti-intellectualism, cult, culture, democracy, ignorance, intellectual, political, politics, united-states, willful-ignorance

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“Right now, we need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art. Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximize corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Late in the Day: Poems 2010–2014

tags: art, writing

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