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There and Back Again

Name: There and Back Again
Author: Pat Murphy

There and Back Again, by Max Merriwell is a 1999 science fiction novel by Pat Murphy, retelling J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit as a space opera, combined with Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark. It was published by Tor Books.

“You may learn a few things,” she said. “And that’s always good.”

Pat Murphy book There and Back Again

Source: There and Back Again (1999), Chapter 7 (p. 123)

“Let it be. These things have a way of becoming clear over time,“ Gyro said. And then he shrugged. “Or not. In the end, it doesn’t really matter does it?”

Pat Murphy book There and Back Again

Source: There and Back Again (1999), Chapter 3 (p. 50)

“You’ve passed the first test of leadership. You’ve disagreed with me.”

Pat Murphy book There and Back Again

Source: There and Back Again (1999), Chapter 3 (p. 66)

“Imaginary solutions work quite well, as long as you realize that problems are also imaginary.”

Pat Murphy book There and Back Again

Source: There and Back Again (1999), Chapter 15 (p. 259)

“Gyro smiled. “There’s an old pataphysical saying: ‘An adventure is only an inconvenience, rightly considered.’ Adventure is never convenient. And everything is an adventure, if you take the right perspective.”
“So everything is inconvenient?” Bailey grumbled.
“Oh, yes. That’s exactly it! Life is terribly inconvenient, which makes it quite entertaining.””

Pat Murphy book There and Back Again

Source: There and Back Again (1999), Chapter 3 (p. 61)

“Gazing at those beautiful stars, Bailey realized that nothing mattered to them. All the achievements of humankind were insignificant. Love and hate, death and life, honor and dishonor, knowledge or ignorance—what did any of that matter in the face of this austere and heartless splendor?”

Pat Murphy book There and Back Again

Source: There and Back Again (1999), Chapter 10 (p. 183)

“Piero was the sort of person that every religion needs but no religion likes. Thoughtful, rational, scientific. He asked questions and did not accept the easy answers on faith.”

Pat Murphy book There and Back Again

Source: There and Back Again (1999), Chapter 10 (pp. 197-198)

“Every point is a turning point.”

Pat Murphy book There and Back Again

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There and Back Again (1999)

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