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Book cover of Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. Sketch in black and white of a humanoid bug.
Simpsons character principal Skinner saying "Am I out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong"
Book cover of Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, featuring a pair of storks over a blue abstract river, on red background
Photo of hardcover book collection, March by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell
Book cover for A Sorceress Comes to Call by T Kingfisher
Cloth bound books of NK Jemisin's The Fifth Season/Broken Earth trilogy
Would not one living man —one companion in my weary solitude, be worth all the glory and remembered power of this time-honoured city? Double sorrow—sadness, bred in Cimmerian caves, robed my soul in a mourning garb. The generations I had conjured up to my fancy, contrasted more strongly with the end of all —the single point in which, as a pyramid, the mighty fabric of society had ended, while I, on the giddy height, saw vacant space around me.
I spread the whole earth out as a map before me. On no one spot of its surface could I put my finger and say, here is safety. -Mary Shelley, The Last Man
“And wouldn’t it be horrible and terrifying to discover that all of this was part of some great clever plan by the Martians to divide and conquer us, and kill us? Sometime during the night, perhaps my brother here on this bed will change form, melt, shift and become another thing, a terrible thing, a Martian. It would be very simple for him to just turn over in bed and put a knife into my heart……..His hands were shaking under the covers. His body was cold. Suddenly it was not a theory. Suddenly he was very afraid……..Carefully he lifted the covers, rolled them back. He slipped from bed and was walking softly across the room when his brother’s voice said, ‘Where are you going?’…...’For a drink of water’. ‘But you’re not thirsty’. ‘Yes, yes, I am’. ‘No, you’re not’. Captain John Black broke and ran across the room. He screamed. He screamed twice. He never reached the door”.