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The Native Star

The Native Star

The Native Star is a historical fantasy novel, and the first novel from writer M. K. Hobson. It was nominated for the 2010 Nebula Award.

““Still feeling guilty, are we? I’d have thought you’d be over that by now.”
“I have a nettlesome little thing called a conscience,” Emily hissed. “Ever hear of it?”
“They’re out of fashion in New York,” Stanton said, and though she guessed she was joking, he didn’t sound humorous.”

M. K. Hobson book The Native Star

Source: The Native Star (2010), Chapter 5, “The Aberrancy” (p. 74)

“You know, there’s one thing about you that always astonishes me. The longer you talk, the wronger you get.”

M. K. Hobson book The Native Star

Source: The Native Star (2010), Chapter 23, “The Skycladdische and the Sangrimancer” (p. 331)

“I’d ask you to forego the jingoistic claptrap, but it’s terrifyingly obvious you truly believe it.”

M. K. Hobson book The Native Star

Source: The Native Star (2010), Chapter 20, “The Otherwhere Marble” (p. 284)

“The sight of Oakland sprawling on the horizon gave Emily’s spirits an additional boost. Oakland was by no means lovely, but it meant they were almost to San Francisco.”

M. K. Hobson book The Native Star

Source: The Native Star (2010), Chapter 7, “San Francisco” (p. 95)

“Senator Stanton? The man who’s sold his own soul so many times that no one can figure out who actually owns it?”

M. K. Hobson book The Native Star

Source: The Native Star (2010), Chapter 20, “The Otherwhere Marble” (p. 285)

“Emily stared into the middle distance, trying to ignore the fact that the men were looking at her like a cupcake on a plate.”

M. K. Hobson book The Native Star

Source: The Native Star (2010), Chapter 23, “The Skycladdische and the Sangrimancer” (p. 325)

“Zombies are soulless creatures, and being soulless has been empirically proven to result in an unpleasant disposition.”

M. K. Hobson book The Native Star

Source: The Native Star (2010), Chapter 3, “The Rule of Three” (p. 43)

“Ever mind the Rule of Three…Three times what thou givest returns to thee.”

M. K. Hobson book The Native Star

Source: The Native Star (2010), Chapter 3, “The Rule of Three” (p. 42)

“Emily looked at him for a long time. There were so many things she wanted to know—but she wanted not to know them even more. She didn’t want any more answers. He had been the one thing she could trust, the one person she could rely on. She wanted to beg him to be that way again. But it wasn’t him who had changed. It was her. It was her own credulity she really wanted back. And credulity, like virtue, could be lost only once.”

M. K. Hobson book The Native Star

Source: The Native Star (2010), Chapter 17, “The Cockatrice” (p. 237)

““They say that they’re a punishment on godly people for allowing sin to walk the earth unanswered—”
“Who is this ‘they’ you’re always referring to?” Stanton glared at Rose, his eyes gleaming with unhidden malice. “Your mongoloid Aunt Kindy? Your drunken Uncle Sal? Or are you talking about the slack-jawed hacks who bang out those dime novels for a bottle of whiskey and the price of a flophouse?”
Rose stared at him, her mouth open in astonishment. But Stanton pressed on, his voice flat and awful.
“Or maybe you’re just using the word ‘they’ as so many pea-brained idiots use it, as a cowardly rhetorical device, an excuse to say the things you really believe without giving anyone the chance to judge you for the narrow-minded, stupid creature you are.””

M. K. Hobson book The Native Star

Source: The Native Star (2010), Chapter 15, “Ososolyeh” (pp. 211-212)

“Dignity is like morality,” Mirabilis barked. “Too much is as bad as too little.”

M. K. Hobson book The Native Star

Source: The Native Star (2010), Chapter 20, “The Otherwhere Marble” (p. 274)

“Before the sun went down again, she realized, she would be in New York. The thought sent a nervous thrill through her entire body. Her throat was tight, her heart suddenly racing.”

M. K. Hobson book The Native Star

Source: The Native Star (2010), Chapter 15, “Ososolyeh” (pp. 220-221)

“He’s lying. I have no doubt he’s excellent at it.”

M. K. Hobson book The Native Star

Source: The Native Star (2010), Chapter 11, “The Wages of Sin” (p. 159)

“She wanted to crawl into his arms and be soothed, and soothe him in return, and forget all the grand ideas she’d ever had about true love, and the necessity for it. Because true love was a load of baloney. Finding a good friend…a good friend who trusted you…was more than enough.”

M. K. Hobson book The Native Star

Source: The Native Star (2010), Chapter 22, “Cupid’s Bludgeon” (p. 315)

“Emily’s chestnut-colored hair was thick and shiny as silk floss—an extraordinary female endowment. But like most female endowments, it was generally more trouble than it was worth.”

M. K. Hobson book The Native Star

Source: The Native Star (2010), Chapter 1, “Ashes of Amour” (p. 8)

““I’ll do everything I can to help, I promise.”
“You always have,” Emily murmured. Except tell me the truth about anything.”

M. K. Hobson book The Native Star

Source: The Native Star (2010), Chapter 23, “The Skycladdische and the Sangrimancer” (p. 329)

“I’ll do everything I can to help, I promise.”

M. K. Hobson book The Native Star

“You always have,” Emily murmured. Except tell me the truth about anything.
Source: The Native Star (2010), Chapter 23, “The Skycladdische and the Sangrimancer” (p. 329)

“In New Bethel, we take the word serious. We whip whores, we hang thieves, and we burn sorcerers.”

M. K. Hobson book The Native Star

Source: The Native Star (2010), Chapter 11, “The Wages of Sin” (p. 155)

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