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Dan Simmons
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The Rise of Endymion
Outside the port, the slashed rock of the unnamed asteroid tumbled and spun in dynamics known only to the gods of chaos mathematics.
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Dan Simmons
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Song of Kali
Don't go, Bobby," said my friend. "It's not worth it.
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Dan Simmons
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Hyperion
I explored religions and serious drinking, finding more hope of lasting solace in the latter.
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Dan Simmons
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The Fall of Hyperion
If I should die," said I to myself, "I have left no immortal work behind me-nothing to make my friends proud of my memory-but I have lov'd the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remember'd.
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Dan Simmons
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The Terror
He enjoyed the soft sound of night wind and the knowledge that he was the only boy-perhaps the only human being-out there in the dark on the windy, frozen-grass meadows on this night that smelled of coming snow, alienated from the lighted windows and the warm hearths, very aware that he was of the village but not part of it at that moment. It was a thrilling, almost erotic feeling-an illicit discovery of self separated from everyone and everything else in the cold and dark-and he feels it again now, as he has more than
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Dan Simmons
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Endymion
Planck time and Planck length," I said. "I don't remember exactly-something about combining the three fundamental constants of physics-gravity, Planck's constant, and the speed of light. I remember it gave some tiny little units of length and time.
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Dan Simmons
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The Terror
suddenly. "Why do you men have to add to it? Why does our species always have to take our full measure of God-given misery and terror and mortality and then make it worse?
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Dan Simmons
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Endymion
shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.
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Dan Simmons
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Endymion
Meaning no disrespect, sir," says the other man, "but there's no way in the Good Lord's fucking universe that anyone can bar accidents or the unexpected.
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Dan Simmons
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Summer of Night
that winter was colder'n a crib full of witch's tits,
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Dan Simmons
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Endymion
I did not know if androids could dream-
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Dan Simmons
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The Terror
I wish I could help him. I wish I could help the dozens of other Sufferers - all the victims of wounds, maulings, burns, diseases, incipient malnutrition, and melancholic despair - aboard this entrapped ship and her sister ship. I wish I could help myself, for already I am showing the early signs of Nostalgia and Debility.But there is little that I - or any surgeon in the Year of Our Lord 1848 - can do. God help us all.
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