Pre-order options for WHITE MIRROR are now available, including a limited edition bundle that features a comic-book rendition of one of the book’s stories. Physical copies ship August 1st, with the included ebook and audiobook editions available for instant download.
WHITE MIRROR is a thoughtfully curated collection of sci-fi stories, intentionally crafted as an optimistic counterpoint to the pessimistic and dystopian themes dominating science fiction and popular culture for decades.
Get your sunglasses on, because the future is looking bright…
Sunday, 6 July
Two thoughts from Larry McMurtry
“If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.”
“Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.”
Monday, 7 July
Two thoughts from Guy de Maupassant
“Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a market, it is always ourselves that we are describing.”
“You must render: never report.”
Tuesday, 8 July
Two thoughts from Alphonse Daudet
“Hatred – The anger of the weak.”
“Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.”
Wednesday, 9 July
Two thoughts from Saki
“A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.”
“The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.”
Thursday, 10 July
Two thoughts from Gustave Le Bon
“The tyranny exercised unconsciously on men’s minds is the only real tyranny, because it cannot be fought against.”
“The beginning of a revolution is in reality the end of a belief.”
Friday, 11 July
Two thoughts from Albert Bandura
“People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.”
“Where everyone is responsible, no one is really responsible.”
Saturday, 12 July
Two thoughts from Howard Rheingold
Soon the digital divide will not be between the haves and the have-nots. It will be between the know-hows and the non-know-hows.
“Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.”
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Dear Jim,
Thank you for these quotes! Some of my faves this time:
Guy de Maupassant:
“Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a market, it is always ourselves that we are describing.”
Alphonse Daudet:
“Hatred – The anger of the weak.”
“Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.”
Saki:
“A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.”
“The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.”
Albert Bandura:
“People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.”
Howard Rheingold:
“Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.”
Thanks for sharing as always!
Love
Myq