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City at the End of Time
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City at the End of Time (2008) (edit title/settings)

by Greg Bear (Author) (edit contributors)

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Multiple Hugo and Nebula award-winning author, Greg Bear is one of science fiction’s most accomplished writers. Bold scientific speculation, riveting plots, and a fierce humanism reflected in characters who dare to dream of better worlds distinguish his work. Now Bear has written a... read more

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  • “Even within their protective caul,…he felt maligned by the views that somehow crept into his eyes.…Here there was only…a despondent dullness of wit, will, and enthusiasm.”
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  • all creation is collaboration between the great and the small, always interconnected and dependent upon each other.
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  • Cats, ever the friends of books and stories—ever ready to attend to the reading of stories by sitting in a lap and purring. The death of all stories would not make them happy.
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  • Time does not rush along as a point; it smears out like the passage of a brush a minute or an hour or a week wide, sometimes a month—a brush made of fate-laden fibers, painting different pictures for different people.
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  • Between the lines A bogey walks Eight legs, eight eyes. Letters will flee
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  • Brahma, the moving stillness within, who will awaken; Mnemosyne, the reconciler, who walked among us for a time, but who must return to her true nature; and Shiva, who will dance in joyous destruction.
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  • “Many things are conceivable, but impossible. Many more are conceivable, yet not probable. A very few are inconceivable—to us—yet still possible.”
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  • Strange that something impossible would look more convincing, surrounded by things only very unlikely.
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  • The Chaos had washed across the surface of the Earth in a wave of many dimensions, surrounding the last enclaves of humanity from above, below, and to all sides, cutting off their lines of fate as well as access in space and time. That was how the Chaos transformed, took control—and reduced its conquests to a misery of confusion and lies.
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  • As a master lost in the mists of the Brightness once said, ‘The map is not the territory.’”
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  • efficiency…He said something so utterly brilliant it was stupid. He said, ‘Dark matter is stuff waiting to happen.’”
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  1. Greg Bear (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Del Rey
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Publication Date: 2008
ISBN: 0345448391
Page Count: 496

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