Mercury Rises (2011) (edit title/settings)

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• Mercury: A renegade angel
• Christine Temetri: Religion Reporter and Apocalypse confounder
• Eddie Pratt: Add a description of this character.
• Jacob Slater: An FBI explosives expert
• Tiamat
• Horace Finch
• Gamaliel
• Uzziel
• Crispin
• Cody Lang
• Lucifer
• Wanda Kwan
• Charlie Nyx
• Allie
• Katie Midford
• Maya
• Japheth
• Michael
• Izbazel
• Michelle
• Harry Giddings
• Gardner Vasili
• Alistair Breem
• Colin Lang
• Mbutuokoti
• Troy
• Israfil
• Ramiel
• Hammurabi
• Ernie
• Malchediel
• Einstein
• Cain
• Bob
• Cork
• Pheidippides
• Ronald
• Essie

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• “As the saying goes, there are no atheists on mountaintops during thunderstorms.”

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• The fisherman is above the fish, but it’s not the fish who follow the fisherman.”

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• “We’ve always been headed toward the Apocalypse. It’s just a question of proximity.”

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• What if your existence is supposed to be in the tension between doing what you’re told and doing what you feel like doing? I mean, it has to be, doesn’t it? If you were just a tool of the bureaucracy, you might as well be a machine, or a robot, rather than an angel. And on the other hand, if you just gave in to whims at every instant, you’d just be an animal, living your life on instinct. It seems to me that for angels, and human beings, too, life is a constant state of tension between the robot and the animal.”

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• “Being given advice is my second-favorite thing!” “Your first favorite being…” “Not being given advice.”

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• There comes a time in every angel’s life when he is compelled to reflect on his existence and ask himself that most difficult of questions: why do I even bother?

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• The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless. —Nicholas Chamfort

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• it’s much easier to rally people behind the idea of a miraculous savior than the idea that the purpose of the Universe, if there is one, can only be pieced together through a painstakingly dull process intelligible only to the sort of people who took honors calculus in high school.

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• “I most certainly did not bless the rains down in Africa!”

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• “Panton in suus vicis,” Cody said quietly. Eddie turned. “What did you say?” “It’s Latin,” Cody said. “It means—” “I know what it means,” Eddie said. “‘Everything in its time.’

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• When I was in school, I was taught that an atom was comprised of a bunch of protons and neutrons kind of glommed together, with electrons whizzing around the nucleus like planets orbiting the sun. It turns out, of course, that this is a wildly misleading model. But it was people using essentially that model who designed the atomic bomb, so I guess it was close enough for government work.

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• Anaheim Stadium
• Los Angeles
• Heaven
• Babylon
• South Africa
• Marduk
• Kenya
• Nairobi
• Most High
• Europe
• Israel
• Middle East
• Glendale

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Preceded by Mercury Falls.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Robert Kroese (Author)

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Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy › Contemporary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Comic