Now the lupine duel has finally resolved, and the cyberwolf of techno-optimism registers its final processes as it lies twitching in a pool of its own coolant.

"Doug Rushkoff is Ready to Renounce the Digital Revolution", Malcolm Harris for Wired

Malcolm never disappoints when it comes to gonzo perfect sentences.

I could trick myself into feeling an ambient familiarity.

The Immortal King Rao, Vauhini Vara

A couple of other contenders:

The room was so small that the backs of the chairs kissed.

There is a kind of action that resembles inaction, and it is the kind on which all of society is founded.

There are probably more profound or dramatic sentences in this book I should be drawn to, but these were the ones that stuck with me.

Glowing at the center of the warm spotlights was the hardening skeleton of a train.

The Terraformers, Annalee Newitz

I already made this joke on one of the limited-character platforms, but I'm grateful to Newitz for a) writing a novel with a character who is a bioengineered sentient train, and b) answering the question "do sentient trains fuck." (Reader: they fuck.) Some delightfully weird stuff in this novel, though it felt like it should have been more like three novels.

Yes, whether you’re looking to smelt or cast, whether you need an ingot or a rhyton, a double-headed Cretan axe, some grave goods for your strongest grandmother, or a brazier-fitted statue of Kronos to give just the right finishing touch to your tophet, you simply can’t do better than bronze."

"It's 1178 BCE and the Bronze Age Has Never Looked Stronger. No, I Won't Lift My Eyes to the Horizon Right Now", Daniel Lavery and Mattie Lubchansky in The Chatner Substack

Submitted by Bill. I have been looking for something to pull together my tophet...

The Texan teenage monarch's offshore tax haven was not meant to be.

Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy, Quinn Slobodian

"Texan teenage monarch" has such a great cadence!!