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Vanda M Denton is the author of complex, thought-provoking novels spanning genres from scifi and fantasy, through speculative to literary fiction.
She was born to a Polish WW2 hero. Awareness of the invasion and occupation of her father’s homeland engendered interests in human survival and fairness. This desire to see justice done is reflected in all her work.
Vanda draws on knowledge gained through two degrees covering education, psychology, social sciences, philosophy and arts. This formal education fires her ongoing interests in psycho-social themes as well as modern biological and scientific developments. She often recounts a phrase expressed by her sister long before attending university: You think too much. That is a state of mind she t ...more

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'I never go for obvious. I've been tricked out of obvious my entire life.”
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“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
― Robert Bloch

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“What was in them was promise. They dealt in transformations; they suggested an endless series of possibilities, extending like the reflections in two mirrors set facing one another, stretching on, replica after replica, to the vanishing point.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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“We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.”
― Bernard De Chartres

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“They look, I said. They look in all our rooms.
What for? he said.
I think I lost control then, a little. Razor blades, I said, Books, writing, black market stuff. All things we aren't supposed to have.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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“I feel buried.”
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Only at the beginning of The War on Women by Sue Lloyd-Roberts but eager to recommend it to all. It is a thoroughly professional report that everyone needs to read.

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There's no expectation in limbo.

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