26 November: Frederik Pohl Quotes

 Born on this date in 1919 Frederik Pohl, US, sci-fi author. 10 quotes from him:

1. They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind.
2. Anyway, that's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.
3. On this day I want to tell you about, which will be about a thousand years from now, there were a boy, a girl and a love story.
4. You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it.
5. Slaves dream of freedom, commoners dream of becoming kings, what do kings dream of?
6. Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's lives. And you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad.
7. There is no greater dark than the dark between the stars.
8. Anybody who sets out to turn the world upside down has no right to complain if he gets caught in its gears.
9. I don’t think you know what it’s like to have someone head over heels in love with you. What’s the good of a man who’s upside down?
10. For someone to be taken seriously it was valuable to have the appearance of someone who deserved to be taken seriously.

Killing Me Softly

Sebastian Garrett is an assassin. It wasn’t his first choice of vocation, but nonetheless, he’s good at it, and can be relied upon to get the job done. He’s on top of his game.

Until he is contracted to kill Princess Helena of Galorvia. She is not just any princess. Sebastian doesn’t bargain on his intended victim being a super-heroine who gives as good as she gets. Only his own genetic variant power saves him from becoming the victim, instead of Helena. 

Fate has another surprise in store. Sebastian was not expecting to fall in love with her.

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