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Julian Comstock: a Story of 22-nd Century America by Robert Charles Wilson

We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.

—JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE

Look not for roses in Attalus his garden, or wholesome flowers in a venomous plantation. And since there is scarce any one bad, but some others are the worse for him, tempt not contagion by proximity, and hazard not thyself in the shadow of corruption.

—SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Crowns, generally speaking, have thorns.

—ARTHUR E. HERTZLER

To Mr. William Taylor Adams of Massachusetts , who might not have approved of it, this book is nevertheless respectfully and gratefully dedicated.