“The exoneration of the mass. No one voice is to blame. But his voice was there.” — Ian McDonald Blame Copy Share Image
“It’s one thing building a cloister to reflect the 768 of the numerological Bismillah, it’s another planning a giant alphabet out of… — Ian McDonald Copy Share Image
“Sensitive dependence on initial conditions; one word, one act, can change the world. Well they named it chaos theory.” — Ian McDonald Change the world Copy Share Image
“Legends should stay legends otherwise they just become history, when the natural course of things is the other way around, from history… — Ian McDonald History Copy Share Image
“If God truly were inside you, could you bear to look at it? Necdet says.” — Ian McDonald God Copy Share Image
“Have you ever looked at a map of our country, Necdet?’ Green Headscarf says. ‘It’s a map of the human mind. We’re… — Ian McDonald Human mind Copy Share Image
“You collect art: you must know that the miniature artists, at the end of careers spent painting the tiniest, most exacting details… — Ian McDonald Art Copy Share Image
“The implants just give you a new set of reproductive-free imperatives, that's all. The rest, thank the gods, is up to you.… — Ian McDonald Cyberpunk Copy Share Image
“Ayşe has always admired the Ottoman talent for euphemism. The Auspicious Event was the massacre and execution of ten thousand Janissaries. Bodies… — Ian McDonald Copy Share Image
“Well, the human genome has massive redundancy - that means that two per cent of the DNA does all the work of… — Ian McDonald Taking Up Space Copy Share Image
“It is always dangerous when your enemy has a sense of humor. Ask Batman.” — ian mcdonald Humor Copy Share Image
“He never looked great but he's dreadful now, face thin and eyes staring like you see in cartoons of mad imams and… — Ian McDonald Choosing-friends-wisely Copy Share Image
“After the plates are removed by the silent and swift waiting staff, General Çiller leans forward and says across the table to… — Ian McDonald European union Copy Share Image
“The time is short and the hills is dark and I's got miles to go before I sleeps. Is is no easy… — Ian McDonald Easy road Copy Share Image
“She was theorizing on the Deep State; that enduring Turkish paranoia that the nation really was a conspiracy run by a cabal… — Ian McDonald Late summer Copy Share Image
He's never fought with religion; what is the point of railing against such beauty, such intimate theatre, such chime of eternity? He… — Ian McDonald Believe Copy Share Image
