Author: Diana Peterfreund

Cites

• Jane Austen (1)
  • IN: For Darkness Shows the Stars (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.
    FROM: Persuasion, (1818), Novel, UK
• Lady Persis Blake (1)
  • IN: Across a Star-Swept Sea (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The history of the human race pivots on two points: the development of agriculture, which created civilization, and the Reduction, which destroyed it. Before the Reduction, the few impoverished or dissenting peoples who didn’t genetically engineer their offspring had been the object of scorn and pity. But a generation later, when these “perfect” children could only produce mentally and physically impaired Reduced babies, it proved what a colossal mistake had been made. The bulk of humanity affected by this tragedy—the Lost—did not accept defeat lightly. Instead, they turned on those who’d escaped unscathed, making them the targets of envy, hatred . . . and, with the Wars of the Lost, utter annihilation. After the wars were over, the survivors looked with horror and dismay upon what they had wrought. There was hardly any place left on Earth to make a life, and few untainted by Reduction left to live one. In desperation, two poor servants defied their Lost masters. Out of the wars’ most terrible weapon, they terraformed a new home, an oasis in the wreckage of the world: New Pacifica. There, they declared, they’d rule forever over those responsible for the Earth’s destruction. It didn’t work out that way.
    FROM: Human Rights in Albion: A Term Paper by Lady Persis Blake, (2013), Fictional, NULL