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Jack Faust

Jack Faust

Jack Faust is a science fiction novel by American writer Michael Swanwick. It was nominated for the British Science Fiction Award in 1997, and for both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1998.


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“It pained him to think how naive he had once been.”

Source: Jack Faust (1997), Chapter 19, “Ashes” (p. 328)

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“There was so much going on, and so little he cared to know about!”

Source: Jack Faust (1997), Chapter 11, “Apes” (p. 184)

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“Information is information, Faust. Knowledge is knowledge. I make no distinction between the high and the low.”

Source: Jack Faust (1997), Chapter 6, “Practical Designs” (p. 80)

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“Still, it was no easy thing to flirt in German.”

Source: Jack Faust (1997), Chapter 13, “Tabloids” (p. 225)

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“Our records must be scrupulous, whether they show what we want them to show or not.”

Source: Jack Faust (1997), Chapter 9, “The Plague Kitchen” (p. 148)

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“The hearsay of hearsay is not admissible as scholarship.”

Source: Jack Faust (1997), Chapter 1, “Trinity” (p. 11)

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“They were not aware of the madness that lurked within their own minds.”

Source: Jack Faust (1997), Chapter 1, “Trinity” (p. 3)

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“The law,” Hoess suggested, “might not be entirely unhelpful here.”

Source: Jack Faust (1997), Chapter 13, “Tabloids” (p. 214)

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