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"Perhaps we think up our own destinies, and so in a sense deserve whatever happens to us, for not having had the wit to imagine something better.”
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Iain Banks
　 Such as been the strange terrain of my latest endeavor: a mumbling meander through the obscure thickets of Banks and Mieville, with a little jolly time with Golden Horde on the side. A Song of Stone, Perdido Street Station and Neal Stephenson's ensemble writing project Mongoliad have been the order of rule over the last few weeks. China Mieville is for real