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Mini reviews will follow as I make my way through this collection.TABLE OF CONTENTS
1) “The Shipmaker” 🚀🚀🚀🚀
Originally published in Interzone #231, November 2011, reprint in Clarkesworld 2017, 5480 words.
I read this in Clarkesworld in 2023 and liked it ...more "
“Did you read the instructions?” He shook his head. “Why, were you afraid they’d take your man card away?”
“Finally one of my teachers took me aside and said: ‘Manuel, you are not God. You aren’t omnipotent. Wanting to help is good, but this belief that you, personaly, have so much power to affect the universe is starting to border on personal idolatry.’” He snorted. “He wasn’t wrong.”
“Did that help?” Selena asked.
“Not really, but at least then I felt guilty about feeling guilty, which is very catholic.”
― Snake-Eater
“Did that help?” Selena asked.
“Not really, but at least then I felt guilty about feeling guilty, which is very catholic.”
― Snake-Eater
“This life is like a sword. It’s the tool I know how to use. I have sharpened it to a keen edge, and it accomplishes the tasks I set it to. It may cut me from time to time, but I know its value. If I put it down, what other tool is there to hand?”
― Brigands & Breadknives
― Brigands & Breadknives
“In the end, that was what got her moving again. As folk had done since time immemorial, she got on with things, because otherwise … who would feed the dog?”
― Brigands & Breadknives
― Brigands & Breadknives
“Always remember, although the unimaginative see life as a thread stretched from one point to another, birth to death, a life truly lived is a glorious tangle. One is never lost. And if one is lucky, one is never found, either.”
― Brigands & Breadknives
― Brigands & Breadknives
“I think for the first time in a long time, I wasn’t looking backward … or forward, either. So maybe I was looking at whatever is between those things.”
― Brigands & Breadknives
― Brigands & Breadknives
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