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Memory is fallible. Dreams overwrite the reality, fond fantasies inform the dreams.

— Adrian Tchaikovsky Saturation Point (2024)

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Long-term thinking requires a clarity the natural human mind is not good at.

Elder Race (2021)

Aunt Charla is one of those people who take pride in not knowing about anything that’s changed in the world in the last thirty years.

Saturation Point (2024)

The place gave a bad name to dingy and escaped being run-down only because it had never been up.

Dress Rehearsal (2016)

I am nothing but a scientist of sufficiently advanced technology, which is to say a magician.

Elder Race (2021)

And I had been manipulated, surely, but an actor, of all people, has no business complaining he has been tricked.

Dress Rehearsal (2016)

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