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  1. Charles Stross _ Neptune's Brood

    Death is really no more than the voluntary liquidation of an economy of microscopic free agents, the redemption of the debt of structured life.
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  2. Charles Stross _ Neptune's Brood

    We are, after all, .
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  3. Charles Stross _ Neptune's Brood

    Of course I grew it in a fucking tank! What do you think I am, a farmer?
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  4. Charles Stross _ Neptune's Brood

    The icky part was knowing I was in the presence of a woman so crazy that she thought her highest calling was to incubate encapsulated alien teratomas until they came squirting out of her body and walked around on their own legs. I have heard of some bizarre vocations in my life, but seldom anything quite so disgusting.
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  5. Charles Stross _ Neptune's Brood

    I can get you a cheaper ticket if you let me amputate your legs: I can even take your thighs as a deposit," said the travel agent. He was clearly trying hard to be helpful: "It's not as if you'll need them where you're going, is it?" "Is it possible to find a better price by booking me on a different routing?" I asked. "I'm very attached to my limbs." {Quaint and old-fashioned, that's me.}
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  6. Charles Stross _ Neptune's Brood

    ... the ads made me feel bilious and love-stricken, invaded and debauched by a coldly mechanical lust for whatever fetish the desire machines were pushing at their victims at any given instant.
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  7. Charles Stross _ Neptune's Brood

    Private ownerships of a ...slave chip is illegal in many polities. It tends to be a government monopoly, much like other forms of violence. But I had fallen among pirates and life insurance underwriters.
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  8. Charles Stross _ Neptune's Brood

    ...butcher, baker, fusion-reactor maker.
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  9. Charles Stross _ Neptune's Brood

    Only debt is forever.
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  10. Charles Stross _ Neptune's Brood

    Just as individuals age and die, so do lineages: Only debt is forever.
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  11. Charles Stross _ Neptune's Brood

    It is a truth universally acknowledged, that every interstellar colony in search of good fortune must be in need of a banker.
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  12. Charles Stross _ Neptune's Brood

    Money. An instrument invented in ancient temple complexes, to keep track of debt: counters that acquired mobility and went a-walking, weaving webs of debt into vast and intricate meshes, enslaving and directing the labor of billions in service of the obligations created by its issuance. . . . Money: a shadow play projected on the walls of our minds by the dark sun of debt.
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