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"The station approach traffic was heavy, and we were showing a twenty-seven-minute docking delay. Twenty-seven minutes was more than enough time for me to do something stupid."
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"I know that’s actually not a permanent solution and pretending bad things aren’t happening is not a great survival strategy in the long run, but there was nothing I could do about it now."
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Martha Wells is an American writer of speculative fiction. She has published a number of science fiction and fantasy novels, young adult novels, media tie-ins, short stories, and nonfiction essays on Science Fiction/Fantasy (SF/F) subjects; her novels have been translated into twelve languages. Wells credits her academic background in anthropology for her interest in designing complex, realistical
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"This was another reason I didn’t like human security consultants. Some of them enjoyed their job too much."
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"It was very dramatic, like something out of a historical adventure serial. Also correct in every aspect except for all the facts, like something out of a historical adventure serial."
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"For a being as sophisticated as you are, it is baffling how little understanding you have of the composition of your own mind."
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"(If I got angry at myself for being angry I would be angry constantly and I wouldn’t have time to think about anything else.) (Wait, I think I am angry constantly. That might explain a lot.)"
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"They were all annoying and deeply inadequate humans, but I didn’t want to kill them. Okay, maybe a little."
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