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  • I still vividly remember my introduction to SF. (perhaps not my first, but the first I remember) It was sitting in the school library in first grade poring over the pictures in a book called Spacewreck: Ghostships and Derelicts of Space by Stewart Cowley.

    MIND MELD: The Appeal of SF&F Art 2008

  • Derelicts were poisoning themselves before Prohibition with alcohol of less than vintage quality—Sterno filtered through a sock, for instance, or diluted antifreeze solution “addicts claimed that a little rust improved the flavor and gave their bodies needed iron,” wrote Herbert Asbury.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • Derelicts were poisoning themselves before Prohibition with alcohol of less than vintage quality—Sterno filtered through a sock, for instance, or diluted antifreeze solution “addicts claimed that a little rust improved the flavor and gave their bodies needed iron,” wrote Herbert Asbury.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • Serialized in Moment (Warsaw), 1913; “Hefker-mentshn” (Derelicts).

    Rokhl Faygnberg (Imri). 2009

  • Derelicts and criminals and prostitutes building bonds, aware of these times of desperation, and willing to come together to do something about it in the spirit of prophetic imagination.

    John from Cincinnati | Goblin Mercantile Exchange 2009

  • Now I'm going to have to go back and listen to that Original Flavor LP and "Derelicts of Dialect."

    Style Master Generals AKA The Originators (The Emcee Edition) Part 2 Of 4 Dart Adams 2007

  • Derelicts and drug addicts began to fill his duplex at Beekman Place, stealing the silver and the artwork.

    Hostage to Fortune Andrews, Suzanna 2004

  • Derelicts and drug addicts began to fill his duplex at Beekman Place, stealing the silver and the artwork.

    Hostage to Fortune Andrews, Suzanna 2004

  • Derelicts sat on street corners, bottles of Thunderbird and Colt 44 were strewn on the sidewalk, and the polka dots of crack vial caps were everywhere.

    A Lincoln Rhyme eBook Boxed Set Jeffery Deaver 2001

  • Derelicts and addicts deserve compassion for whatever pain has weakened their power to live.

    The 28 Laws of Attraction Thomas J. Leonard 1998

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