American writer Susan Sontag was born on this date in 1933. Some of her words of wisdom:
- It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
- To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
- I urge you to be as impudent as you dare.
- Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
- What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer’s life seemed the most inclusive.
- Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
- 10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
- I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
- Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
- I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Secrets and Skies
Scientist Desi Troyes has developed a nuclear bomb to counter the ever present threat of an asteroid hitting the planet. When Ward signs the order giving the go ahead for a nuclear test on the remote Bird Island, he has no inkling of Troyes' real agenda, and that he has signed the death warrants of millions of people.
Although the island should have been evacuated, there are people still there: some from the distant continent of Classica; protesters opposed to the bomb test; and Innovians who will not, or cannot, use their communication devices.
Power Blaster knows he must stop the bomb from hitting the island. He also knows it may be the last thing he ever does.
Meanwhile in Innovia, Ward and his staff gather to watch the broadcast of the test. Nobody, not even Troyes himself, has any idea what is about to happen.
Part One of The Raiders Trilogy.
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