This is the sentence I was reading as my girlfriend next to me giggled in delight at her much lighter read. Quite the tonal contrast happening in this room 😅
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Ell quoted Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer
His roar, reader, as when the foaming torrent bursts its banks, swelled by the spring thaw coursing down the mountainside, and on the water rushes, no hope, no remedy, erasing all our works, the well-tilled fields, the orchards, years of labor swallowed into nothing, just so I felt oblivion's inexorable yawn in Caesar's roar, and Death's behind it.
— Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer (39%)
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In the Nebula Award winning Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson began his critically acclaimed epic saga of the colonization of …
@mouse@bookwyrm.social Yessssss I love this series in general, and this one specifically! Love Piper.
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