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  1. Charles Stross _ The Fuller Memorandum

    I'm possessed, recursively.
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  2. Charles Stross _ The Fuller Memorandum

    MONDAY DAWNS BRIGHT AND HOT AND EARLY, AND I FIND MY SELF waking to the happy knowledge that I can go back to work, and nobody will order me home.
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  3. Charles Stross _ The Fuller Memorandum

    Russian espionage directed against the West has been rising since 2001. We kind of forgot that you don't need communism to set up an east/west squabble between the Russian Empire and Western Europe-in fact, communism was a distraction.
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  4. Charles Stross _ The Fuller Memorandum

    All right." Panin sips at his wine. "Excuse me, but-there is a personal connection?" "What?" "You appear unduly upset ..." "Yes." She looks at her hands. "The missing officer is my husband." Panin puts his glass down and leans back, very slowly, with the extreme self-control of a man who has just realized he is sharing a table with a large, ticking bomb. "Is there anything I can do to help?" "Yes.
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  5. Charles Stross _ The Fuller Memorandum

    I'm a believer. And like I said, I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring cosmos-in which my existence was a random roll of the dice and I was destined to die and rot and then be gone forever-was infinitely more comforting than the truth. Because the truth is that my God is coming back. When he arrives I'll be waiting for him with a shotgun. And I'm keeping the last shell for myself. A
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  6. Charles Stross _ The Fuller Memorandum

    It seems I have not been truly myself for a long time," he says, barely whispering, a dry, papery sound like files shuffling in a dead document archive.
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  7. Charles Stross _ The Fuller Memorandum

    Summer in England THOSE WORDS ARE SUPPOSED TO CONJURE UP HALCYON SUNNY afternoons; the smell of new-mown hay, little old ladies on bicycles pedaling past the village green on their way to the church jumble sale, the vicar's tea party, the crunching sound of a fast-bowled cricket ball fracturing the batsman's skull, and so on.
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  8. Charles Stross _ The Fuller Memorandum

    For instance, I never wrote to my MP to express my displeasure at the widespread deployment of sleeping policemen around the capital. It never occurred to me to do so: Mo and I don't own a car, and speed bumps
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  9. Charles Stross _ The Fuller Memorandum

    To put it bluntly, there are too many humans on this planet. Six-billion-plus primates. And we think too loudly. Our brains are neurocomputers, incredibly complex. The more observers there are, the more quantum weirdness is observed, and the more inconsistencies creep into our reality.
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  10. Charles Stross _ The Fuller Memorandum

    I shove my reading matter back into my messenger bag {it's a novel about a private magician for hire in Chicago-your taxpayer pounds at work} and go to stand in the doorway."
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  11. Charles Stross _ The Fuller Memorandum

    Like I said: the only god I believe in is coming back. And when he arrives, I'll be waiting with a shotgun.
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  12. Charles Stross _ The Fuller Memorandum

    I've met gibbering horrors from other universes, been psychically entangled with a serial killer fish goddess, stalked by zombies, imprisoned by a megalomaniac billionaire, and I've even survived the attention of the Auditors {when I was young, foolish, and didn't know any better}. But I've never lost a classified file before, and I don't ever want there to be a first time. I force myself to sit down
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