Ell quoted Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer
From the 2017 John W. Campbell Award Winner for Best Writer, Ada Palmer's Perhaps the …
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%)
