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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (17 children)

@V0ldek This is a hill I will die on: the passive voice ABSOLUTELY does not belong in a work of fiction. (Academic papers and reports are another matter entirely, but fiction: no.)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (14 children)

Section Three of the Official Secrets Act (1916) is our principle weapon in the endless war against security leaks. It was passed during a wartime spy scare—a time of deep and extreme paranoia—and it's even more bizarre than most people think.

The Atrocity Archives, p. 13 of the Ace paperback edition

The glamour's still there, masking her physical shape, but what I'm seeing now is unfogged by implanted emotional bias.

The Jennifer Morgue, p. 92 of the Golden Gryphon hardcover

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

Doing the tour of other fiction books within arm's reach....

My name is Hermann Soergel. The curious reader may have chanced to leaf through my Shakespeare Chronology, which I once considered essential to a proper understanding of the text; it was translated into several languages, including Spanish.

Jorge Luis Borges, "Shakespeare's Memory" (translated by Andrew Hurley)

When her father had been executed, her aunts and uncles on both sides of the family had declined to speak out against his killers, and Nasim had been so angry that she'd cut herself off from everyone, even before she and her mother had fled.

Greg Egan, Zendegi (this, like the Jennifer Morgue example, was on the page to which I opened at random)

Now the mayor's cousin has been arrested for murder.

John Chernega, "Almond", in Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories About People Who Know How They Will Die

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

side note, but I freaking love Machine of Death. what a cool book that came into existence in such a weird way

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