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The world roared.
— Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky
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The world roared.
— Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Shea Ashcroft stepped from a carriage into the low-lit alley as a mongrel lifted its door knocker of a head from a garbage pile.
Here is what I remember most about the months I spent searching for dark matter: there are some things in the universe you can only find by looking away from them.
— In Universes by Emet North
I’d thought the jungles of the eastern Empire to be oppressively hot, but as I sat in the prow of the little canal boat and felt the sweat slip down my brow, I decided the north was, without question, far worse.
— A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett (Shadow of the Leviathan, #2)
Abe Kalotay died in his front yard in late February, beneath a sky so pale it seemed infected.
Why do you feed the cats, othala?
I want to feel everything, the light, the noise, the dark, even the cold and fear.
— Dual Memory by Sue Burke
We call them Bunnies because that is what they call each other.
— Bunny: A Novel by Mona Awad
The other day, we’re standing in the repository; it’s evening already, nothing left to do but dump the lab suits, then I can head down to the Borscht for my daily dose of booze.
— Roadside Picnic by Boris Strugatsky, Борис Натанович Стругацкий, Arkady Strugatsky, and 1 other
The trick is remembering that it’s all a game.
— Atlas Alone by Emma Newman
He didn't like beating people.
I am not on this beach.
— Before Mars by Emma Newman (Planetfall, #3)
It's times like these, when I’m hunkered in a doorway, waiting for a food market of dubious legality to be set up, that I find myself wishing I could eat like everyone else.
— After atlas by Emma Newman (A Planetfall novel)
Every time I come down here I think about my mother.
— Planetfall by Emma Newman
I hadn’t seen Juan in years, not since I left the commune.
— These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart by Izzy Wasserstein