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T. Coraghessan Boyle _ The Terranauts
but outside, in the desert, where the air was thin and light pollution unheard of, you could see right up into the back molars of the universe.
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T. Coraghessan Boyle _ World's End
For weeks in advance of the date he would storm and rage and fulminate about the inequity of it all, and the old contumacious fire-breathing spirit arose like a phoenix from the ashes of his contentment.
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T. Coraghessan Boyle _ World's End
In de Pekel Zitten
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T. Coraghessan Boyle _ The Terranauts
crossed the room and lit a cigarette, though smoking was discouraged on campus and about as stupid and self-destructive an activity as anything our species has devised.
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T. Coraghessan Boyle _ Wild Child and Other Stories
They caught him again, at the foot of the woods, and he fought them with his teeth and his claws but they were bigger, stronger, and they carried him back as they always had and always would because there was no freedom, not anymore. Now he was a creature of the walls and the rooms and a slave to the food they gave him.
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T. Coraghessan Boyle _ Wild Child and Other Stories
My fellow drivers, riding their brakes and clinging to the wheel as if it were some kind of voodoo fetish that would protect them against drunks, curves, potholes, errant coyotes and sheet metal carved into knives, went to pieces the minute the first drop hit the windshield.
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T. Coraghessan Boyle _ The Terranauts
HIV, AIDS and maybe even Ebola pulsing through the circulatory pathways of our criminally expanding species, pandemic, everything a pandemic, apocalypse festering in the blood.
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T. Coraghessan Boyle _ The Terranauts
If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and the failure memorable.
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T. Coraghessan Boyle _ The Terranauts
The earth was running out of resources, global warming was beginning to be recognized as science fact and not science fiction, and if man was to evolve to play a part in things instead of being just another doomed organism on a doomed planet, if the technosphere was going to replace pure biological processes, then sooner or later we'd have to seed life elsewhere-on Mars, to begin with.
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T. Coraghessan Boyle _ Outside Looking In
He wanted enlightenment just as she did, just as they all did. "Right," he said, handing her back the flyer, "but where do I park?
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T. Coraghessan Boyle _ Outside Looking In
But it was on now, humming to life: a flicker, an adjustment of the dial, a new announcer, his voice shaken and hollow. Then the first image appeared, and it was devastating, the real world, the world of hate and pain and horror, slamming right into her like a clenched fist."
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T. Coraghessan Boyle _ World's End
And music. What would a wedding be without it?
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