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We say what happens now. We're taking control. We're turning around; we're heading home. Your orders to proceed... are in-fucking-validated.
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She shouted, Arms and tongues, Spiral? and waggled her arms and stuck out her tongue, and the old man crowed and did the same. He's for the first, against the second, as I recall, she said to Ori. Has he chanted for you? 'Too much yammer, not enough hammer.'
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She was intelligent enough to realize that her excitement was childish, but not mature enough to care.
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She felt so alien, bowed under culture shock as crippling as migraine.
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It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.
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Judah knows the trow will be eradicated and their homes lost to history, but he will not be party to it, and he has tried to stand in its way.
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History... Jacobs spoke with terse authority. Brought Ori to a hush. Is all full. And dripping. With the corpses. Of them who trusted the incorruptible.
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Born:
September 6, 1972
(age 51)
Bio:
China Tom Miéville is an English fantasy fiction author, comic writer and academic. He is fond of describing his work as "weird fiction", and belongs to a loose group of writers sometimes called New Weird.
Known for:
Perdido Street Station (2000)
The City & the City (2009)
Embassytown (2011)
The Scar (2002)
Un Lun Dun (2007)
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