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"Well, at least I got to the conclusion of an important fight before my audiobook loan timed out again." — Nov 05, 2025 03:51PM
"Well, at least I got to the conclusion of an important fight before my audiobook loan timed out again." — Nov 05, 2025 03:51PM
“It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.”
― Embassytown
― Embassytown
“For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing. ”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.”
― Embassytown
― Embassytown
“The Ghost of Sir Felix Finch whines, "But it's been done a hundred times before!"--as if there could be anything not done a hundred thousand times between Aristophanes and Andrew Void-Webber! As if Art is the What, not the How!”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“a phenomenon that gave rise to my first critical insight into the subtle ruse of power: the prevailing law threatened one with trouble, all to keep one out of trouble. Hence, I concluded that trouble is inevitable and the task, how best to make it, what best way to be in it.”
― Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
― Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
SFF180 presents Space Opera September: Season 2: 2021
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A place for readers/contributors of Reddit's /r/Fantasy subreddit to discuss books from the genre and see others' book lists and recommendations. ...more
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A Book Club dedicated for reading speculative, science fiction and fantasy short stories. The club will alternate between reading anthologies and shor ...more
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