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The adhesive, originally developed to repair the skin of space capsules, ensured that the bond would not fail in the extreme hot and cold temperatures of space. In the end he had thirty-six meteorite bullets. He inserted four meteorite bullets into a magazine, which he then loaded into a P224 pistol and fired at a sack in the corner. The gunshot wa
... See moreCixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)
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Adrian Tchaikovsky • Children of Time
Lo que le pasa a este nuevo mundo —había dicho el tubista una vez— es que sufre una horrible falta de elegancia.
Emily St. John Mandel • Estación Once (KBL nº 10) (Spanish Edition)
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Liu, Cixin • The Three-Body Problem
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Neal Stephenson • Seveneves: A Novel
Thought again of the City as an algorithm: considered, for the first time clearly, that no algorithm was innocent of its designers. It couldn’t be. There was an originating purpose for an algorithm, however distant in its past—a reason some human person made it, even if it had evolved and folded in on itself and transformed.
