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Galatea 2.2
von Richard Powers

"Wenn in allem, was ich zu F. sagte, seine kompromittierte Vergangenheit bereits unsichtbar vorhanden war, war es kein Wunder, daß F. Vergleiche benutzen und klugschwätzerische Antworten geben lernte. Jedes Kind kommt hinter die Schwächen seiner Eltern. Es ahnt sie schon vor den Worten, die erste und letzte Lektion. Schwäche ist womöglich die einzige dauerhafte Lektion der Eltern."
Richard Powers: Galatea 2.2

GAIN
von Richard Powers

"Laura asks point-blank, at her next checkup, just before her fourth chemo. "Dr. Archer. Can cancer have environmental causes?" "Cancer, my dear, is not cancer, is not cancer." "Ovarian, then?" "What do you mean, 'environmental'?" He cannot keep the tone of professional irony out of his voice.
aus: "Gain" von Richard Powers

GHOSTWRITTEN
von David Mitchell

"The clock says 3.43 a.m. The thermometer says it's a chilly fourteen degrees Fahrenheit.(...) That last number was Tom Waits's "Downtown Train", a dedication to Harry Zawinul, a patient at Our Lady of Mercy Hospital, requested by his night-shift nurses . .. The message to Harry is, if you're listening to my show under the blankets, switch off your Walkman, now go to sleep, it's your operation tomorrow."

Lights out for the Territory
von Iain Sinclair

"The matter of London, the refleshing of Lud's withered hide, is exposed by doctored maps, speculative alignments, black propaganda. The revenge of the disenfranchised. Improvisations on history that are capable of making adjustments in present time. Prophecy as news. News as the purest form of fiction. Subversion in splash headlines. The most corrupt of all forms, the tabloid, can be "turned"."

Killing Time
von Caleb Carr

"I have but one lamp by which my feet are
guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
I know no way of judging the future but by the past."

- Patrick Henry, 1775