star-crossed and time-challenged
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quantum consciousness and self-destruction
A civilization with people in it I could recognize
Work and fiction
First encounters with no second chances
what it really means to be an astronaut
bold and uncompromising future poetry
Clockwork Angels (the album and the book) is a loose retelling of Voltaire’s Candide set in a universe where a genius known as the Watchmaker is able, through the power of alchemy and his own force of will, to build an empire where “all is for the best” — because he insists that it is. The follow-up, Clockwork Lives, is presented as a steampunk Canterbury Tales, and though the comparison is not so apt, it nevertheless offers its own pleasures.
a writer at the height of her powers
Gibson: The Peripheral