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Like an old photograph of something evil, Ringu has the strange-but - familiar power to unnerve.
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The magazine's jet-setting worldview (forget the Next Shanghai?) seems even odder now than at the tail-end of the boom when it merely felt like a series of dispatches from a strange-but excellently designed-alternate universe populated by strikingly beautiful people.
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The magazine's jet-setting worldview (forget the Next Shanghai?) seems even odder now than at the tail-end of the boom when it merely felt like a series of dispatches from a strange-but excellently designed-alternate universe populated by strikingly beautiful people.
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The magazine's jet-setting worldview (forget the Next Shanghai?) seems even odder now than at the tail-end of the boom when it merely felt like a series of dispatches from a strange-but excellently designed-alternate universe populated by strikingly beautiful people.
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There was a natural alliance possible, they knew the piercing of mortality, felt the immemorial sweep carrying forward and go for howling adventures amongst the Injuns. amid the rush and ruination over in the territory but they were all out in the territory now, the country of the strange-but linked to Earth and Skimmer and the mute, huge, blood-rich things below by cycles of talk and sign and inevitable death Watcher's damaged sir but still active I'm getting counts from it damn we didn 't get it Weak signal from Lancer, nothing on shipcomm at all Lots of casualties, it got most of 'em in the hall Ted?
Across The Sea Of Suns Benford, Gregory, 1941- 1984
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"There was glass on the floor," he said slowly, "and the plastic had been pulled off the new coffin-looks like Eighteenth Dynasty in a Sixteenth Dynasty sarcophagus, really strange-but nothing seemed to be missing.
Blood Lines Huff, Tanya 1993
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