You've found a way to stay sane, Renfew--even if that means admitting a tiny piece of piano-playing madness into your world. But there's a cost to that sanity, and it isn't moi. the cost is you can't ever allow yourself an instant of hope, because hope is something that will always be crushed, crushed utterly, and in the crushing of hope you will be weakened forever, just as surely as if you'd mainlined some slow-acting poison."
~"Understanding Space
Stichwörter: hope
Life is precious. Infinitely so. Perhaps it takes a machine intelligence to appreciate that."
~"Understanding Space
Stichwörter: life
I'll die? I'm going to die anyway, so what difference does it make?"She paused, allowing the melancholic chorus of the machines to swell and fill the room. "Probably by the end of the week. And all I've got to look forward to is the inside of this room or the view out this window. At least let me see something different."
~"Understanding Space
Stichwörter: last-request
...the next time you need a piece of apparently obscure information, try asking a science fiction writer. You might be surprised.
Alastair ReynoldsStichwörter: science-fiction-writers
There has been much debate on the matter, but the present state of understanding is that no useful information can ever emerge from a black hole."
~"Understanding Space
Believe me, when you're dealing with infectious alien mind parasites, I always find primitive is best." Then, calmly, almost as if it were a recognised form of verbal punctuation, she took aim with the needler and gutted a rat which had dared to stray into the corridor.
Alastair ReynoldsWell," she said, "I see it hasn't got a fuck of a lot better since I was away.
Alastair ReynoldsStichwörter: humor ana-khouri
It's an ancient technique known as lying, Khouri.
Alastair ReynoldsStichwörter: humor
You didn't weld it shut or anything like that?"
"Yes, stupid me, I forgot.
Stichwörter: humor
There was something heartbreakingly beautiful about the lights of distant ships, I thought. It was something that touched both on human achievement and the vastness against which those achievements seemed so frail. It was the same thing whether the lights belonged to a caravel battling the swell on a stormy horizon or a diamond-hulled starship which had just sliced its way through interstellar space.
Alastair ReynoldsStichwörter: human space achievement existential ships
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