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Index
Cover
Contents
Novels of the Marvel Universe by Titan Books
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
1 It’s not About the Individual. It’s About the Design, the Pattern.
2 Oh, Dying Would Matter to them, of Course. No One Wants to Die.
3 But Kill Them All and What Does It Matter?
4 Death Only Matters to Those Left Behind.
5 If They’re All Gone, What’s Left to Care? The Sky? The Planet? The Stars? No.
6 History Doesn’t Exist Without Someone Reading It.
7 History is Also Written by the Winner.
8 If They’re Gone, No One Will Fret their Questions or Ponder their Existence. No One Except Me.
9 I’ll Be the Only One Deciding What they Are Worth. So Why Shouldn’t I Decide if they Live?
10 If Something’s About to Destroy You, The Obvious Choice is to Destroy it First.
11 But is It so Easy to Destroy if It’s the Most Astonishing Thing You’ve Ever Seen?
12 How Do You Decide if It’s Worth the Risk?
13 But Why Would I Ever Value Anything More than Myself?
14 In The End, What’s Worth More—Me, Or The Things That Make Me Feel Alive?
15 If I Try to be Objective, It’s Like Trying to Pick One Snowflake Over Another.
16 If I Were as Callous as the Stars, I’d Flip A Coin. But that Would Be the Same as not Deciding at All.
17 It Can’t Just Be Luck that Decides For me, It Has to be The Pattern. The Design.
18 If I had a Million Years, I Could Think Through to Certainty, But I Don’t. I Have to Decide—And Soon.
19 True Beauty that Can Make the Very Idea of Luck Seem Meaningless, A Placeholder for a Lack of Understanding.
20 Wanting to Preserve that Beauty Can’t Be Pointless.
21 Not to Appreciate Beauty, Well, that Would be the Very Definition of Pointlessness.
22 But Believing in Beauty Doesn’t Mean Risking My Life for it, Does It?
23 But if I Sacrifice Myself, I do it in Secret. Who Would Know? Who Would Care?
24 What Would Be Left to Fret My Questions, to Judge Me Good or Ill?
25 My History Won’t Exist Without Someone to Write It.
26 I’d Still Remember them, Though.
27 If I Survive, I May See Their Like Again.
28 Maybe, In Time, I’ll See Something Better, Even More Worth the Risk.
29 If I’m Gone, I Won’t See Anything at All.
30 And Nothing Wants to Die.
Epilogue
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