“We contrast the urban and the natural, but that’s a contemporary myth. We’re animals, after all; our cities are organic products, fully as “natural” (whatever that word really means) as a termite hill or a rabbit warren. But how much… — 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
“Certainly it's a rare glimpse into the lives of the Secular Ancients. They don't seem as bad as the Dominion histories make them out… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
It was possible at last to hear the silence to appreciate that there was a silence, deep and potent, out there beyond the pretension… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
