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The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to.
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In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.
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History viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians.
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Speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what people call 'the real world'...
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Sometimes... dreams are all that separate us from the machines.
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Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being evil.
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His imagination was always more real than the reality of daily life.
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Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and proclaim ourselves civilized.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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Dan Simmons
Born:
April 4, 1948
(age 76)
Bio:
Dan Simmons is an American science fiction and horror writer. He is the author of the Hyperion Cantos and the Ilium/Olympos cycles.
Known for:
Hyperion (1989)
The Terror (2007)
Endymion (1996)
Drood: A Novel (2009)
Ilium (2003)
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