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Rysa Walker
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SFF author, including CHRONOS Files. ABNA Grand Prize. ITW Finalist. My latest is Dark Little Worlds. Political junkie and recovering gov't professor. https://www.amazon.com/author/walker

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If you're in Northern Virginia, I'm giving a talk on Reading as Resistance from 11:30-12:00 tomorrow 10/4 at the Fredericksburg Independent Book Fest. (fredbookfest.com) It's a wonderful event with 60+ regional authors. We'll be outdoors on what should be a lovely fall day. Come join us! #booksky
October 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Overflow crowd at Cary, NC #NoKings rally.
June 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Day 100: Philip Pullman
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Source: The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ. (2009)
Lord, if I thought you were listening, I'd pray for this above all: that any church set up in your name should remain poor, and powerless, and modest. That it should wield no authority except that of love. That it should never cast anyone out. That it should own no property and make no laws. That it should not condemn but only forgive. ~ Philip Pullman
April 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Day 99: Stephen King
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Source: "The Book-Banners: Adventure in Censorship is Stranger Than Fiction." March 20, 1992
As a nation, we've been through too many fights to preserve our rights of free thought to let them go just because some prude with a highlighter doesn't approve of them. ~ Stephen King
April 28, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Day 97: Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel)
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Source: Yertle, the Turtle (1958)
I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here on the bottom, we, too, should have rights. ~ Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel)
April 27, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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Day 97: Aldous Huxley
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Source: "The Double Crisis" (1949)
Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism. ~ Aldous Huxley Source: "The Double Crisis" (1949)
April 26, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Day 96: Anne Frank
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Source: The Diary of a Young Girl (1952)
There’s a destructive urge in people, the urge to rage, murder and kill. And until all of humanity, without exception, undergoes a metamorphosis, wars will continue to be waged, and everything that has been carefully built up, cultivated and grown will be cut down and destroyed, only to start all over again!" ~ Anne Frank
April 25, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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Day 95: Robert A. Heinlein
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Source: Time Enough for Love (1973)
A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future. ~ Robert A. Heinlein
April 24, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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Day 94: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Source: A Scandal in Bohemia. (1891)
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
April 23, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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Day 93: Elie Wiesel
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Source: Open Heart (2012)
I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up to us to transform them into instruments of comprehension rather than contempt. It is up to us to choose whether we wish to use them to curse or to heal, to wound or to console. ~ Elie Wiesel
April 22, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Day 92: N.K. Jemisin
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Source: The Fifth Season (2015)
The truth is, we’re the ones who make the system. We can unmake it, too. ~ N.K. Jemisin
April 21, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Day 91: Octavia Butler
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Source: Parable of the Talents (1998)
In order to rise from its own ashes a phoenix first must burn. ~ Octavia Butler.
April 20, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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Day 90: Ursula K. Le Guin
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Source: The Dispossessed (1974)
You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
April 19, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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Day 89: Theodore Sturgeon
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Source: More Than Human. (1965).
Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive. ~ Theodore Sturgeon
April 18, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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Day 88: Samuel R. Delany
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Source: Triton (1977)
Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep. ~ Samuel R. Delany
April 17, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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Day 87: Margaret Atwood
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Source: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)
Better never means better for everyone. It always means worse, for some. ~ Margaret Atwood
April 16, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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Day 86: Terry Pratchett
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Source: Guards! Guards!: A Novel of Discworld (1989)
Down there are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don't say no. ~ Terry Pratchett
April 15, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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Day 85: Robert A. Heinlein
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Source: Revolt in 2100. (1952)
You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic. ~ Robert A. Heinlein
April 14, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Day 84: George Orwell
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Source: 1984 (1949)
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. ~ George Orwell
April 13, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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Day 83: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Source: Familiar Studies of Men and Books (1882)
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
April 12, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Day 82: H.G. Wells
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Source: The Outline of History (1920)
The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open and truthful and legal. As soon as a government departs from that standard it ceases to be anything more than 'the gang in possession,' and its days are numbered. ~ HG Wells
April 11, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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Day 81: Philip K. Dick
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Source: Valis (1981)
The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give. ~ Philip K. Dick
April 10, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Day 80: William Gibson
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Source: Pattern Recognition (2003)
We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management.~ William Gibson
April 9, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Day 79: Isaac Asimov
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Source: “The Cult of Ignorance.” (1980)
When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent. ~ Isaac Asimov
April 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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"But I didn't know he was going to eat *my* 401K!" www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... #BlackMonday
April 7, 2025 at 4:38 AM