"The softest of rains falls in the street..."

Does anything happen in these books?

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"It is what a different postwar theoretical philosophy called redemption; all these insignificant moments of an insignificant daily life are here redeemed, by the ordinary, undistinctive sentences which write them down. They have not been transformed, or lent some higher meaning; they remain what they were before, transient and of no particular interest. Nor are they lifted into the timeless eternity of classical literature, posterity and the canon: you can dip into them wherever you like and they will not be any more quotable..."

"...this ‘being-for-the-reading-other’ makes for a new kind of otherness"

Geoscape

Trinity

Adagio Stellar

Goodbye Chicago

Before we parted, I asked you: "We all came to this city to change our lives. Are you happy how your life has changed?"

Goodbye Chicago. Stay beautiful.

Chinese SF

"Each chapter is headed with a ‘life goal’: the first is ‘Drink some water that is not bitter, make some money’; the last is ‘Fly to the stars, draw humanity’s gaze back to the depths of the cosmos.’"

from the depths of the Pacific to the edge of the galaxy

"I solemnly swear, to devote my life and ability
in the defense of the United Nations of Earth
to defend the constitution of man
and to further the universal rights of all sentient life
from the depths of the Pacific
to the edge of the galaxy
for as long as I shall live."