Consciousness," according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way a garden slug secretes slime. It had no special ontological status. The "self" was a genetically modulated and… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
The attacking piece displaces its victim. The vanquished piece leaves the plane of the board entirely. But it does not, in a higher sense, cease to exist. — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
Consciousness," according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way a garden… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
“Here she was back in the brightly lit world she had been avoiding for twenty years, and it was exactly as awful as she… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
These movies belonged to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries that period of great, unsustainable, and hedonistic prosperity, driven by the burning of Earth's… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
“I thought of Einstein, and his insistence that no particular point of view was more privileged than any other: in other words his ‘general… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
“The universe, it seemed, was full to brimming with lonesome places.” — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
“Fifteen minutes shy of two o’clock. The thick of the night. The zone of lost objectivity.” — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
It was the kind of experience, Molly said, that would grow calluses on an angel's ass. — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
“I appreciated her bluntness. Maybe it came with her sudden sobriety. Here she was back in the brightly lit world she had been avoiding… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
“I had an idea that sobriety was a weapon. I thought it would give me an advantage over my enemies. I wasn't sober for… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and Old Man's War is classic SF seen from a modern perspective—a fast-paced tour of… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
