Nightmares can be the truth. It wasn’t just villains who had to make the hard decisions.
Vernor Vinge, After the Battle on Starship Hill: Prologue to The Children of the Sky [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]
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What I do know is that a silent scream will send us all to bed tonight and Burroughs shares our nightmares. Not even Hassan-i Sabbah can do it without apomorphine.
Chris Kelso, illo. Shane Swank, Burroughs & Scotland: Dethroning the Ancients: The Commitment of Exile [Amazon, Local Library]
We lend libraries the qualities of our hopes and nightmares; we believe we understand libraries conjured up from the shadows; we think of books that we feel should exist for our pleasure, and undertake the task of inventing them unconcerned about any threat of inaccuracy or foolishness, any terror of writer’s cramp or writer’s block, any constraints of time and space.
Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher]
The borderlands changed shape in unprecedented ways. My nightmares started. The planet screamed.
Bogi Takács & Charlie Jane Anders, The Trans Space Octopus Congregation
