“Maybe your empathy's just a comforting lie, you ever think of that? Maybe you think you know how the other person feels… — Peter Watts Cynicism Copy Share Image
“Dystopia is not always an unhappy place. There are, as it happens, certain dystopias in which it's perfectly possible to be happy… — Peter Watts Life Copy Share Image
“Planck length and Planck time had always looked a bit too much like pixel dimensions for comfort.” — Peter Watts Time Copy Share Image
“She was attractive, but so was everyone in this kind of light; the longer the wavelength, the softer the focus. There’s a… — Peter Watts Light Copy Share Image
“So there’s a membrane of—of living tissue around that star,” I say, trying to wrap my head around the concept. “A, a… — Peter Watts Astronomy Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we took refuge in our diving bell while waves of charge and magnetism spiraled languidly past, like boluses of ectoplasm coursing… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“Szpindel’s eyebrows drew together like courting caterpillars.” — Peter Watts Caterpillars Copy Share Image
“Innately affectionate, and innately afraid of unreturned affection, and indomitably unwilling to let any of that stop her.” — Peter Watts Affection Copy Share Image
How do you say 'We come in peace' when the very words are an act of war? — Peter Watts Peace Copy Share Image
