The Mirror Empire is the most original fantasy I've read in a long time, set in a world full of new ideas, expanding the horizons of the genre. A complex and intricate book full of elegant ideas and finely-drawn characters. — Adrian Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
“You're not like other Wasps." "Aren't I?" Aagen smiled, but it was a painful smile. "No doubt you've killed my kinsmen by the score." "A few," Salma allowed. "Well, next time you shed my kinden's blood, think on this: we are but men, no less nor more than other men, and we strive and feel joy and fail as men… — Adrian Tchaikovsky Copy Share
“The ice had been retreating. Humanity had sprung back swiftly, expanded, fought its small wars, re-industrialized, tripping constantly over reminders of what the species… — Adrian Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
Progress is made by the improvement of people, not the improvement of machines. — Adrian Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
“ We couldn't trust them. They couldn't trust us. Mutual attempts at destruction are the only logical result . He thought of human dreams… — Adrian Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
“Back in Seven Trees, the remaining local males are hard at work. Some have fled, but most of the evacuees are female. Males are… — Adrian Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
“there is a depth to life beyond the simple dimensions that she can perceive and calculate in, and so . . . who knows?” — Adrian Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
“The past is no man’s clay for remodelling. It is fired the moment it is moulded, alas. I” — Adrian Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
“We do not respect our enemies; we despair of them. Your struggle, your fierce will to prevail in spite of all, we do not admire this. We see only a terrible, senseless waste of life – both ours and yours. We see murdered potential, young men and women who might have become anything becoming only corpses through one woman’s dreams… — Adrian Tchaikovsky Copy Share
“I have taken on many Understandings in my life [...]. I have listened to another Messenger's incomprehensible signals in the night. The thing you… — Adrian Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
“Justice is like some unnatural hybrid flower you people have bred. It will not live long unless you keep it sheltered and warm.” — Adrian Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
“Mankind brooks no competitors, She has explained to them – not even its own reflection. For” — Adrian Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
“It took a long time to work out how to do it, but in the end she was only information, after all. Everything is… — Adrian Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
![“I have taken on many Understandings in my life [...]. I have listened to another Messenger's incomprehensible signals in the night. The thing you call God is not even alone in the sky. It is a thing of metal that demands we make more things of metal - and I have seen it, how small it is.” quote by Adrian Tchaikovsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/80a/adrian-tchaikovsky-21498_alone_i-have-taken-on-many-understandings-in-m_1347667.jpg)
