Dek Recommends
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Pigeon – Patrick Süskind
This eye, a small, circular disc, brown with a black centre, was dreadful to behold. Continue reading
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Kappa – Ryunosuke Akutagawa
“Me? I’m an Übermensch”, Tok declared proudly. (Well, a direct translation would be more like Überkappa). Continue reading
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Hyperion – Dan Simmons
Then it moved… or, rather, it did not move but ceased being there and was here, leaning less than a meter from me, its oddly jointed arms encircling me in a fence of body-blades and liquid silver steel. Continue reading
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The Mist – Stephen King
Dreams, after all, are insubstantial things, like mist itself. Continue reading
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Starfish – Peter Watts
“We’re not evil, Lenie” Scanlon says after a while. “Dont’ flatter yourself, Scanlon,” she says. “You don’t have the slightest control over what you are” Continue reading
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Beasts of England – Adam Biles
“Will you be voting?” he heard a lamb ask a young hen. “Why bother?” the hen said. “Whoever you Chooz, you get a pig.” Continue reading
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American Icon – Bryce G. Hoffman
The sudden change of heart made it clear to Mulally that his competitors were desperate for aid of any kind. If he had any doubts that GM and Chrysler were in real trouble, they were gone now. Continue reading
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Wake in Fright – Kenneth Cook
“I can see quite clearly the ingenuity whereby a man may be made mean or great by exactly the same circumstances.” Continue reading
