« On the old earth, in the 20th century, a fast food chain made a fortune just by selling its customers dead cow fried in grease, seasoned with carcinogens and packaged in hydrocarbon-based foam. »
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Dan Simmons
Hyperion's Cantos, Volume 1: Hyperion 1 |
Dan Simmons
Hyperion's Cantos, Volume 1: Hyperion 1
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« Do you know what we have in common with all these works that we are passionate about, Mahnmut? Mahnmut thinks for a moment. "No," he said. - They are inexhaustible. - Inexhaustible? - We never finished going around. If we were humans, these novels, poems and plays would evoke houses where we always find an unknown room, a secret staircase, a hidden attic..; that kind of thing. »
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Dan Simmons
Ilium |
Dan Simmons
Ilium
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« (...) at the top of the Matterhorn, the choice is clear: a misstep to the left and one dies in Italy; a gap to the right and one dies in Switzerland. »
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Dan Simmons
The abominable |
Dan Simmons
The abominable
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