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Ray’s 2023 Year in Books
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Ray Nayler
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Desbiens, Canada
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The Mountain in the Sea
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2022
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25 editions
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The Tusks of Extinction
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2024
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The Job at the End of the World
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2023
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Protectorats
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2023
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Sleepwalking: Crime Stories
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2012
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Muallim
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American Graveyards
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2012
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Eyes of the Forest
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Père
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Thought Crime Number One
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"The best SF book of the year. "
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"Having read Peter Godfrey Smith's "Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness", I was prepped for Ray Nayler's entertaining novel. And now Nayler's writing has added Eduardo Kohn's "How Forests Think", Jesper Hoffmeyer's"
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"Well-written, imaginative, and as philosophical as it is scientific, The Mountain sucks you into its vortex. It addresses so many key issues: what does it mean to be human, what is consciousness, how can beings communicate, can we save this planet? T"
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“The great and terrible thing about humankind is simply this: we will always do what we are capable of.”
― The Mountain in the Sea
― The Mountain in the Sea
“We came from the ocean, and we only survive by carrying salt water with us all our lives—in our blood, in our cells. The sea is our true home. This is why we find the shore so calming: we stand where the waves break, like exiles returning home.”
― The Mountain in the Sea
― The Mountain in the Sea
“I think what we fear most about finding a mind equal to our own, but of another species, is that they will truly see us—and find us lacking, and turn away from us in disgust. That contact with another mind will puncture our species’ self-satisfied feeling of worth. We will have to confront, finally, what we truly are, and the damage we have done to our home. But that confrontation, perhaps, is the only thing that will save us. The only thing that will allow us to look our short-sightedness, our brutality, and our stupidity in the face, and change.”
― The Mountain in the Sea
― The Mountain in the Sea
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| Hugo & Nebula Awa...: Locus Award | 48 | 88 | Jul 01, 2022 01:36AM | |
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| 2024 Reading Chal...: Joy's Gems 2022 | 38 | 190 | Oct 10, 2022 10:22AM |
