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The Wasp Factory

Iain Banks · 1984

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Sean Carroll loved it
This was his first, and it's a masterpiece of twisted imagination. There's a surprise ending, but the convoluted path by which you get there has a terrifying internal logic.

on preposterousuniverse.com · 26 Jul 2006

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.