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But he has made her happy in the only place where people really live, the few-second-wide window of Now.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
There’s work to do. Star-work, but earthbound all the same.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel


Nick was aware it wasn’t a real solution. The future was bigger than he was—bigger than the Maiers, even. Science would always move forward and not back—and that was good, of course. It meant less needless suffering. He couldn’t personally allow some progress and not others. If it wasn’t their company, it would be another. People would seek to cont
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rather than their mechanical replacements. Rick Deckard is a bounty hunter whose quarries are ‘Nexus-6’ androids who illegally return to Earth from off-planet colonies. He is licensed to ‘retire’ (terminate) these fabricated beings which are so convincingly human that they easily blend into society. Again PKD picks up on the theme of entropy. The N
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