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Part of the charm of the mass market paperback. A proper copyedit would've sucked all the juice out.

Medium

After her work attracted the attention of the Ministry of Mass Culture, Barcide was forced to flee for the relative protection of the Eastern Republics.

Trivial

HOLOCENE's kind of writer, though not responsible for the particular book you're after.

Challenging

It is, however, exquisitely written, despite being hard to follow due to its bizarre plot points and elastic sense of time.

Challenging

Trash. The future isn't about humans, it's about machines.

Easy

It's not us that's obscene, it's the age. We're just fitting in.

Medium

Equivalency, Heracles, Vantalangicon, Annihilation, Singularity, Nanoscale, Hyperdrive...

Trivial

Most of those journals look cheap. Pulp-adjacent, really. They probably feel cheap too.

Medium

Once you're done with the sections here, you'll want to go through those big, unsorted piles too. Could be something premium in there.

Legendary

Beauty subsumed by style. The wearer is not the point, the statement is.

Legendary

A wearable, holographic pet? Sick, all aesthetics and no shit.

Medium

The craftsmanship is obvious, as if the seamstress manipulated a fragment of a fallen star.

Easy

That doesn't fly any longer. 'Market trends' were the reason the silk factories closed down, according to Carmuna.

Medium

A hole in the collective memory that won't be noticed at first... but it'll be felt, sooner or later.

Medium

A big win for productivity. No more of that pesky human error to contend with.

Medium

That might be one cover that's beyond you. Not much mother in you at all.

Medium

Hffff, ooooo, mmmhhhmmmm...

Medium

In a place like this, it wouldn't be surprising if the kids were the ones who put them in here in the first place.

Medium

TEMPTATIONS OF THE FLESH ONLY INSULT THE INTELLECT OF THE PEOPLE.

Challenging

But not before she got a good eyeful, the little minx.

Medium

Images aren't enough. You need to get hands-on -- rolling around, biting, giggling.

Formidable

Lesser people than you would feel embarrassed for being caught in such an act. Fortunately, you have the indifference of a low-class pervert.

Medium

It's almost like you don't have more important things to be doing with your time...

Medium

Medium

Blood and guts in black and white. Wicked.

Medium

You've seen that name before, browsing at the newsstand while Tempo badgered and bartered over cigarettes.

Challenging

Think of it: a gun crafted with your own hands, the Hershel signature.

Easy

'Noscorrentes Review' -- the secret jail's location, bright and shiny. That's why the old spy wanted us to fetch it.

Challenging

Take it. A keepsake for the road.

Easy

That price may explain why they're practically giving them away here.

Medium

Higher quality materials don't equate to better editorial content -- it just pushes up the base cost per unit.

Easy

The title greets you as if with a bow.

Medium

REJECTING THE PETTY APPRAISER'S HAND. COMMENDABLE!

Trivial

The heartless man wanted a poetry magazine from this place, didn't he?

Trivial

You could get that poetry magazine Hauzmann wanted, even though you found the jail. A little gift.

Trivial

You could get that poetry magazine the heartless man wanted, even though you found the jail. A little gift.

Trivial

The old spy's poetry magazine should be somewhere in that mess.

Trivial

And if there's a copy of HOLOCENE's novel in Portofiro, it'll be here too. Try the sci-fi section.

Trivial

If there's a copy of HOLOCENE's novel in Portofiro, it'd be here. Try the sci-fi section.

Medium

The faintly sweet smell of old paper, tinged with an unpleasant hint of mildew.

Easy

This man matches the description of 'Frederik' given by Oskar Metamoto, the EMTERR negotiator.

Medium

A prisoner of his own desire.

Medium

A bubble just waiting to be burst.

Medium

Blood rush. Boiling. Fist clench.

Medium

There. The little mental tickle -- that's your brain telling you you're close to something important.

Medium

If it weren't for the handset he's clutching you would've laid him right out.

Challenging

In this man's mental-life, physical violence is what happens to other people.

Medium

But also attention. He won't brush you off so easily now.

Medium

THE ENEMY FLEES FROM THE POST-HISTORICAL DUSTBIN.

Easy

At last, now you can use the phone.