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Dan Simmons _ Carrion Comfort
Black man invented plasma. Fellow named Charles Drew. I read somewhere that he bled to death after a car accident in the nineteen fifties because some cracker North Carolina hospital didn't have any 'Negro blood' in the fridge and refused to give him 'white blood.
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Dan Simmons _ The Terror
Thomas Blanky wondered if he had been an instrument of evil - or perhaps just of folly - when he had used his more than three decades of ice-master skills to get 126 men the impossible 250 miles through ice to this place where all they could do was die
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Dan Simmons _ The Terror
Francis Crozier believes in nothing. Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It has no plan, no point, no hidden mysteries that make up for the oh-so-obvious miseries and banalities. Nothing he has learned in the last six months has persuaded him otherwise. Has it?
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Dan Simmons _ The Fall of Hyperion
… May there not be superior beings amused with any graceful, though instinctive attitude my mind may fall into, as I am entertained with the alertness of a Stoat or the anxiety of a Deer? Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine … By a superior being our reasonings may take the same tone-though erroneous they may be fine- This is the very thing in which consists poetry …" -JOHN KEATS, in a letter to his brother "The Imagination may be compared to Adam's dream-he awoke and found it truth." -JOHN KEATS, in a letter to a friend
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Dan Simmons _ Hyperion
A thin line of beard along his jawline served to accent the sharpness of his countenance as surely as blood on a knife blade.
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Dan Simmons _ Hyperion
Even in the still shadowed places, glowbirds nestled like Japanese lanterns above lighted walkways, glowing swingvines, and illuminated hanging bridges, while fireflies from Old Earth and radiant gossamers from Maui-Covenant blinked and coded their way through labyrinths of leaves, mixing with constellations sufficiently to fool even the most starwise traveler.
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Dan Simmons _ Endymion
Have you ever noticed how on a trip-even a very long one-it is often the first week or so that stands out most clearly in your memory? Perhaps it is the enhanced perception that voyages bring, or perhaps it is an effect of orientation response on the senses, or perhaps it is simply that even the charm of newness soon wears off, but it has been my experience that the first days in a new place, or seeing new people, often set the tone for the rest of the trip. Or in this case, the rest of my life.
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Dan Simmons _ The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book
tourists smelling of UV lotion and cannabis.
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Dan Simmons _ Hyperion & Endymion #4
...feels the same about life - that involvement with it is like the Catholic Communion only the World is the Host, and it must be chewed.
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Dan Simmons _ Ilium
Reading your sonnets?" asked Orphu. Mahnmut closed the book. "How'd you know? Have you taken up telepathy now that you've lost your eyes?" "Not yet," rumbled the Ionian. Orphu's great crab shell was lashed to the deck ten meters from where Mahnmut sat near the bow. "Some of your silences are more literary than others, is all.
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Dan Simmons _ The Fall of Hyperion
Humanity had become as blasé about sharing their lives with potential AI monitoring as pre-Civil War Old Earth USA-southern families had been about speaking in front of their human slaves.
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Dan Simmons _ The Fall of Hyperion
suddenly understood perfectly why Abraham had agreed to sacrifice Isaac, his son, when the Lord commanded him to do so. It was not obedience. It was not even to put the love of God above the love of his son. Abraham was testing God. By denying the sacrifice at the last moment, by stopping the knife, God had earned the right-in Abraham's eyes and the hearts of his offspring-to become the God of Abraham. Sol
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