“Najia can feel yts subdermal activators against her forearm. Not man not woman not both not neither. Nute. Another way of being… — Ian McDonald Cyberpunk Copy Share Image
“Is this a Kurdish thing?’ ‘What?’ ‘Being deliberately contradictory?” — Ian McDonald Copy Share Image
“And how did you find the East?’ ‘It’s a shit-hole. But it’s our shit-hole.” — Ian McDonald Copy Share Image
“A joyful task,’ he says and she realizes that he welcomes the idea of years of searching, tile by tile, inscription by… — Ian McDonald Happiness Copy Share Image
“It's the superhero problem . . . .Superpowers make everything personal. Batman versus Joker. Fantastic Four versus Galactus. The Big G might… — Ian McDonald Batman Copy Share Image
“Water splashes and runs in a film across the glass floor suspended above the mosaics. The Hacı Kadın hamam is a typical… — Ian McDonald Copy Share Image
“Marcelina loved that miniscule, precise moment when the needle entered her face. It was silver; it was pure. It was the violence… — Ian McDonald Beauty Copy Share Image
“If there is one thing will kill Turkey,’ she would say, ‘it is a famine of ideas.’ No one in her coterie… — Ian McDonald Personal space Copy Share Image
“In our five thousand years of civilization, our history has often been the handmaid of geography. We lie exactly midway between the… — Ian McDonald History Copy Share Image
“I do rather like birds,’ Abdullah Unul says. ‘They’re busy, active little things. They make do. Have you ever thought, if Istanbul… — Ian McDonald Little things Copy Share Image
“The army doctor who had patched up his hands and examined him after the rescue at Kayişdaği told him a story about… — Ian McDonald Copy Share Image
“This is always always always what she wished a bazaar to be. Demre, proudly claiming to be the birthplace of Santa Claus,… — Ian McDonald Silk road Copy Share Image
“It is a fake, but a good fake. Turkey is the land of the masterful fake. But it is far far from… — Ian McDonald Copy Share Image
In the Age of Kali the meek and helpless will be preyed upon without mercy, and there will be a surplus of… — Ian McDonald Age Copy Share Image
“Her face had always held too much personality to be merely beautiful.” — Ian McDonald Beauty Copy Share Image
“Talvin Singh, Thievery Corporation, A.R. Rahman, AmarBaaba Maal, Asian Dub Foundation, Autechre, Badmarsh and Sri, Bjork, Black Star Liner, The Blue Nile,… — Ian McDonald Black star Copy Share Image
There's never been a rule of human behavior that hasn't been broken by someone, somewhere, sometime, in some circumstance mundane or spectacular.… — Ian McDonald Behavior Copy Share Image
Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make… — Ian McDonald Deception Copy Share Image
“A CITY IS AS much a state of mind as a place—a set of perceptions of place. On the last train home… — Ian McDonald Big city Copy Share Image
“Like these entities may be the lost acres of the mind, things that have been overlooked by the higher consciousness; that it… — Ian McDonald Higher consciousness Copy Share Image
“We were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it ground us up.” — Ian McDonald Fallibility Copy Share Image
“It’s another post-EU incongruity. Spas are sissy, indulgent, European. Hamams are authentic and Turkish.” — Ian McDonald Copy Share Image
“Do you think it’s a conspiracy?’ ‘Mr Durukan, if God is dead then everything is conspiracy.” — Ian McDonald God is dead Copy Share Image
