"How did you . . . pass the……" — Alastair Reynolds
"How did you . . . pass the time?’ Sunday asked. ‘You couldn’t just ching out of it, could you?’ ‘We had a different form of chinging,’ Eunice said. ‘An earlier type of virtual-reality technology, much more robust and completely unaffected by time lag. You may have heard of it. We called it “reading”."
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Alastair Reynolds
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14 Quotes by Alastair Reynolds
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At one time, the treatment for a certain kind of psychosis had been to push an ice pick up through…
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Nightside, cities glistened in chains, and a spray of tinkertoy habitats girdled the planet. Gossamer starbridges reached from the equator…
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I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to…
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Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves.
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Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.
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It's an ancient technique known as lying, Khouri.
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A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.
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Enjoy it, kid. Enjoy feeling that you can make a difference.' Floyd flashed him a smile. 'It won't last for…
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As the old saying went, the Manhattan Project wasn't built in a day. Or was that Rome? Something to do…
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You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse.
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It looked like a biology lesson for gods, or a snapshot of the kind of pornography which might be enjoyed…
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I think I've reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level.
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