books

December 8, 2021 by achrilock

“‘The rising race is all rhizomatic,’ crackled the voice inside the machine.”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Tropic of Kansas’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/12/08/14090/

December 6, 2021 by achrilock

“Their time line, according to him, is one grim motherfucker.”
— William Gibson, ‘Agency’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/12/06/14045/

December 5, 2021 by achrilock

“So eat hemp and shit rope, Bondsmage.”
— Scott Lynch, ‘The Lies of Locke Lamora’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/12/05/14026/

December 5, 2021 by achrilock

“Nevertheless, anti-fascists have concluded that since the future is unwritten, and fascism often emerges out of small, marginal groups, every fascist or white-supremacist group should be treated as if they could be Mussolini’s one hundred fasci, or the fifty-four members of the German Workers’ Party that provided Hitler’s first stepping stone.”
— Mark Bray, ‘ANTIFA: The Anti-fascist Handbook’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/12/05/14006/

December 3, 2021 by achrilock

“They believed that since the living dead only consumed animals, but not plants, it was the will of the ‘Divine Goddess’ to favor flora over fauna.”
— Max Brooks, ‘World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/12/03/13976/

December 2, 2021 by achrilock

“‘I think maybe one of us is going to end bloody,’ Murtry said.
‘How about now?’ Amos replied with a shrug. ‘I’m free now. We can just skip all the middle part.’”
— James S. A. Corey, ‘Cibola Burn’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/12/02/13947/

December 2, 2021 by achrilock

“When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.”
— Aldous Huxley, ‘Brave New World’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/12/02/13933/

December 2, 2021 by achrilock

“The Grasshopper Lies Heavy. ‘Isn’t this one of those banned-in-Boston books?’ he said.”
— Philip K. Dick, ‘The Man in the High Castle’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/12/02/13918/

November 30, 2021 by achrilock

“‘There’s some evidence that their next-generation sensor arrays can recognize rail-gun capacitors.’
‘That feels unfair,’ Jim said. ‘What a crew does with its rail-gun capacitor in the privacy of its own ship shouldn’t be anyone else’s business.’”
— James S. A. Corey, ‘Leviathan Falls’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/11/30/13878/

November 29, 2021 by achrilock

“I’d seen WarGames so many times that I knew the entire film by heart.”
— Ernest Cline, ‘Ready Player One’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/11/29/13866/

November 28, 2021 by achrilock

“He’d seen unequivocally that the chaos he’d dedicated his life to holding at bay was stronger and wider and more powerful than he would ever be. No compromise he could make would be enough. His death-self was unfolding in him, and the dark blooming took no effort. It was a relief, a relaxation, a long, slow exhale after decades of holding it in.”

— James S. A. Corey, ‘Leviathan Wakes’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/11/28/13849/

November 28, 2021 by achrilock

“It was like a memorial to their dreams of a future they would want to live in.”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Tropic of Kansas’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/11/28/13838/

November 27, 2021 by achrilock

“Redeker believed that to try to protect everyone would stretch the government’s resources to the breaking point, thus dooming the entire population. He compared it to survivors from a sinking ship capsizing a lifeboat that simply did not have room for them all. Redeker had even gone so far as to calculate who should be ‘brought aboard.’ He included income, IQ, fertility, an entire checklist of ‘desirable qualities,’ including the subject’s location to a potential crisis zone. ‘The first casualty of the conflict must be our own sentimentality’ was the closing statement for his proposal, ‘for its survival will mean our destruction.’”
— Max Brooks, ‘World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/11/27/13826/