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Modern man in the West disdains the past. He is proud of his civilization, which he thinks is superior to all that preceded it. Advances in the fields of science and technology give him this illusion; the latest revolutions of communications technology, and the Internet in particular, anchor this claim. Modern man has amnesia. We aspire to break with the past, while what is new becomes an idol.

What's that you say? This was Jules Verne's favorite book? Aside from learning how to live on a desert island I'm also getting a supplement on the Divine Providence unit from Theological Anthropology so works for me.

People said if you listened carefully to the static from the other side of the Ring, you could hear the voices of the dead of Eros, or of the damned.

It's what killed Eros. Could have killed Mars. All that weird stuff it did on Venus, no one knows what it was. Deaded that slingshot kid who went through. Half everyone thinks we should be pitching nukes at it, other half thinks we'd only piss it off. We're going out as deep as anyone ever has just so we can look in the devil's eye...

Right now, a flotilla of Earth ships was burning out into the deep night. A matching force of Martian war-vessels--the remnants of the navy that had survived two let's-not-call-them-wars--was burning out on a converging path.

Enormous ring parked outside Uranus? What could possibly be scary about that?

Methinks some of these characters are going to be in for a serious surprise when they meet each other.

That may be the most brilliant description of "splat" I've ever read.

That is one ballsy serial killer.

Oh man this is psychotic in all the best ways.