About Robert Jackson Bennett: Robert Jackson Bennett is an award winning American writer of speculative fiction.
They value punishment because they think it means their actions are important - that they are important. You don't get punished for doing something unimportant, after all.
Just because you won the War doesn't mean you can do whatever you like!' says Yaroslav. 'And just because we lost it doesn't mean you can strip us of everything we value!
...there is no better time to examine and understand one’s selfhood than when it is dissected and hurtling through darkness.
Here at the edges, in the cracks and at the crossroads, stepping from shadow to shadow in the river of darkness that runs through the heart of Wink, he feels much more at home.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, yadda yadda yadda.
Every second is a forever in Wink. Every day is a cool afternoon waiting to happen. And every life is one lived quietly, with your feet up and your sun-dappled lawn before you as you watch the world happily drift by.
No one does. No one really knows how to be happy. You just get close, sometimes. That’s all I want – just to be close.
I put my office right in the middle of the death they threaten us with. [...] here I sit, every day, hanging over all this wasted nothing. I will never forget what the world could be, should my vigilance never fail. And more than that, I will never f...
What I'm going to do up here, kid, is tell you a story. Like all stories, it's an attempt to make sense of something larger than itself. And, like most stories, it fails, to a certain degree. It's a gloss, a rendition, so it's not exact. But it'll do...
