On this date in 1924 Joan Aiken, writer of fantasy, adventure, horror, and suspense was born. Here are 10 quotes to celebrate her 100th birthday.
Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.
Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it.
Midnight is not a moment, Midnight is a place.
Trees are swayed by winds, men by words.
Eat an apple, sing a song, Don't touch a snake as it wriggles along. Run for an hour, walk for a day, Hark to the birds and heed what they say.
If reading becomes a bore, mental death is on the way.
Just because I’m raking leaves it doesn’t mean I’m not thinking.
The cat sat on the mat. Lots of cats do that, everybody knows. And nothing strange comes of it. But once a cat sat on a mat and something strange did come of it.
You may think it odd that there were three men to look after one tiny station, but the people who ran the railway knew that if you left two men together in a lonely place they would quarrel, but if you left three men, two of them could always grumble to each other about the third, and then they would be quite happy.
Sudden wealth was the great insulator, second only to sudden bereavement.
The first in a new series! It has invading aliens, gladiator-style contests, rivalry and romance.
The six richest people in Britain decide to hold a contest to settle the question of which of them is most successful. It will be a gladiator style contest with each entrant fielding a team of ten super-powered combatants. Entrepreneur Llew Powell sets out to put together his team, which includes his former lover, an employee of his company with a fascinating hobby, two refugees from another dimension (a lonely giant and a drunken sailor), two sisters bound together by a promise, a diminutive doctor, a former Tibetan monk initiate and two androids with a history. As the team train together, alliances form, friendships and more develop, while others find the past is not easy to leave behind.
Meanwhile, a ruthless race of aliens has its eyes on the Earth. Already abducting and enslaving humans, they work towards the final invasion which would destroy life on Earth as we know it. Powell’s group, Combat Team Alpha, stumble upon one of the wormholes the aliens use to travel to Earth and witness for themselves the horrors in store if the aliens aren’t stopped. Barely escaping with their lives, they realise there are more important things to worry about than a fighting competition.
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