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Liu, Cixin • The Three-Body Problem
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia • Mexican Gothic
Their trouble, she decided, is with sex; they did something foul with it back in the ‘thirties, and it has gotten worse.
Philip K. Dick • The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
Perhaps there’ll be a disaster, Carleton had said; and Thomas felt again the blow of the hooded creature fleeing Bethesda with paint on its hands. But that had been no disaster, only something strange and soon forgotten in the order and quiet of his home – so Thomas, who had a gift for self-persuasion, placidly ate a radish.
Sarah Perry • Enlightenment
Emulation of more noxious aspects of adolescence, rather than the clearheaded pristine innocence of authentic childhood.
Philip K. Dick • The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
