In the cabin, Garanin said to him, “With me here, this aircraft is safe. Please tell me the location of the device you have connected to the dead-man’s switch.” “There’s no device. There’s nothing. It was just a trick to escape.” Rey Diaz took off his watch and handed it to Garanin. “This is just a simple transmitter converted from a Motorola phone

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When, later, it became clear to the leaders that there was no means of return to inner space and that the laws of outer space were of another kind to those which clearly govern the routine of inner space, there was panic at first, then apathy, which, between bouts of desperation, spread its frozen insensitivity, its cold doldrum world of lifelessne

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What made the trilogy so stunning and atypical as a sci-fi story was the fact that Liu wasn’t interested in interrogating whether humans deserved to survive. Instead, the novels explored the danger of connection, of the way a thought, once shared, can expand into an unstoppable force—a radical, terrifying ideology or a shrewd solution to a seemingl... See more