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Joined December 2016

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Scourged by KEVIN. HEARNE
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Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson
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Space Opera | Catherynne M. Valente
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And quite frankly, Mr. Rogers notwithstanding, you‘re a mess. I mean, honestly. You just made the argument for the survival of your species and you didn‘t even mention a single female, except, presumably, half the condors. I don‘t know why you would even bring up the Internet.... One glance at that thing is the strongest argument possible against the sentience of humanity.

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Shards of Honor | Lois McMaster Bujold
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She took the story in like some strange, spiked gift, too fragile to drop, too painful to hold.

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Penric's Fox | Lois McMaster Bujold
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Earthworms are theologically neutral creatures, as far as I know.

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Scourged | KEVIN. HEARNE
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She‘s an Irish goddess. If I give her a tiny glass of beer she will hurt me.

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The Lost Steersman | Rosemary Kirstein
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It was a smart idea, really smart. “How come Rowan never thought of this?” Zenna threw her head right back and laughed and laughed. “Oh, Steffie, Rowan would never, not in a hundred years, ask someone else to do her work for her!”
Dan grinned. “But you would?” “Absolutely!”

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Babel-17 | Samuel R. Delany
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IT‘S A PORT CITY. Here fumes rust the sky, the General thought. Industrial gases flushed the evening with oranges, salmons, purples with too much red.

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He wished very much that he could have fed the pigeons, but he had no food for them. They strutted up to him and cooed, not comprehending that a human could lack for something. (Photo by David Yu, 5/2/10, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/)