Book Excerpt for the Day

    I hadn't been off-planet in eleven years, and the press of six gravities was like an old lover holding me in her arms again.  And the curve of the planet below - well, if I had been a sentimental man, I would have cried.  But sentiment is for middle age; just as romance is for youth.  Old age, like war, has colder feelings; it is, after all, a struggle to the death.

(from Bears Discover Fire by Terry Bisson)


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