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“His job on TV was to explain science to the general public and, as such, to act as a lightning for people who could not accept all the things that science implied about their worldview and their way of life, and who showed a kind of harebrained ingenuity in finding ways to refute it.”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

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“Also known as ‘Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah,’ or in the original Welsh, ‘Cwm Rhondda,’” added Sonar Taxlaw.”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

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“it was when I stopped searching for home within others and lifted the foundations of home within myself I found there were no roots more intimate than those between a mind and body that have decided to be whole.”
― Rupi Kaur

tags: awakening, awareness, grounded, life, spiritual, wholeness

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“and nothing was worse than getting stuck in a situation like that with nothing to read.”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

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“We're not hunter-gatherers anymore. We're all living like patients in the intensive care unit of a hospital. What keeps us alive isn't bravery, or athleticism, or any of those other skills that were valuable in a caveman society. It's our ability to master complex technological skills. It is our ability to be nerds. We need to breed nerds.”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

tags: athletes, athleticism, brainiac, brains, bravery, breed, caveman, complexity, future, gatherer, geeks, genius, hospital, humanity, hunter, hunter-gatherer, intelligence, intensive-care, mastery, nerds, patients, society, technology

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Audio & audiobooks are getting more and more popular for commuters & those wanting to squeeze in another book or two a month while doing other activit ...more

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For readers using the Amazon Kindle ebook device.

SciFi and Fantasy Book Club — 42797 members — last activity 38 minutes ago
Hi there! SFFBC is a welcoming place for readers to share their love of speculative fiction through group reads, buddy reads, challenges, ...more

Sci-fi and Heroic Fantasy — 8868 members — last activity 7 hours, 41 min ago
A place for those who walk the green forests of Middle Earth, cross the pale sands of Arrakis, sail the blue waters of Earthsea, slip among the shadow ...more