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From New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune, In the Lives of Puppets is a queer retelling of the Pinocchio …
A Closed and Common Orbit is a 2016 science fiction novel by Becky Chambers, published by Hodder and Stoughton. It …
if a shoemaker takes a piece of raw leather, cuts it, designs it, plans the shoes makes every part of the shoes, turns out a finished product, that represents to him what the piece of sculpturing represents to the artist, there is joy in handicraftsmanship, there is joy in labor.
Bitterness in the heart is a very good stimulus for sabotage.
there is the employer's sabotage as well as the worker's sabotage. Employers interfere with the quality of production, they interfere with the quantity of production, they interfere with the supply as well as with the kind of goods for the purpose of increasing their profit. But this form of sabotage, capitalist sabotage, is antisocial, for the reason that it is aimed at the good of the few at the expense of the many, whereas working-class sabotage is distinctly social, it is aimed at the benefit of the many, at the expense of the few.
Centuries after the last humans left Earth, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, a …
The comforts we've invented, or that our neighbors have invented, can become bad if you don't always, always, ask what the potential consequences could be.
— Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers (Wayfarers, #3)
Issued July, 1956, in commemoration of 50th anniversary of the I.W.W.
When Jernau Morat Gurgeh, a skilled board game player begins to experience ennui and asks …
It was not so difficult to understand the warped view the Azadians had of what they called “human nature”—the phrase they used whenever they had to justify something inhuman and unnatural
— The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #2)
Issued July, 1956, in commemoration of 50th anniversary of the I.W.W.
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"The Industrial Workers of the World is a union unlike any other. Founded in 1905 in Chicago, it rapidly gained …
