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IT AMAZES ME THAT some people have seen “Bloodchild” as a story of slavery. It isn’t.
Symbiotic relationship. The aliens provide extended life at the cost of bearing their young.
“We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood.”
― The Caves of Steel
― The Caves of Steel
“This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.”
― Speaker for the Dead
― Speaker for the Dead
“This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.”
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“If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.”
― Ender’s Game
― Ender’s Game
“I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone who lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. --From the Introduction”
― Ender’s Game
― Ender’s Game
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