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World Engines: Destroyer: A post climate change high concept science fiction odyssey
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“Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs,” I said. “We have a protractor.”
Neal Stephenson • Anathem
Douglas Adams. Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman, Sterling, Moorcock, Scalzi, Zelazny.
Ernest Cline • Ready Player One
He read that its height plus its length divided by half its width equalled exactly 1.67563, or precisely 1,237.98712567 times the difference between the distance to the sun and the weight of a small orange.
Terry Pratchett • The Light Fantastic: (Discworld Novel 2) (Discworld series)
early in her new career as Herself