Re:New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published
by arethuza on Thursday June 23, 2022 @08:31AM
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"Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that he could trace his ancestry back up a long line of slightly less highly evolved stupendous badasses to that first self-replicating gizmo---which, given the number and variety of its descendants, might justifiably be described as the most stupendous badass of all time. Everyone and everything that wasn't a stupendous badass was dead."
Cryptonomicon
Edit: I was going to say that the name of the book isn't referencing that kind of crypto, but then I remembered that it actually is!
Cryptonomicon
Edit: I was going to say that the name of the book isn't referencing that kind of crypto, but then I remembered that it actually is!