...Aldersgate Street, the bottom of the A1 - which was the modern designation of the original Great North Road, built by the Romans two thousand years ago to march its garrisons to the very edge of the empire three hundred miles to the north. Their duty was to reinforce Hadrian's Wall, keeping the outer darkness at bay and the empire safe.

Peter F. Hamilton

Stichwörter: history-repeating-itself



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HR?'
'Human Resources.'
'In Brussels that kind of department is referred to as the Office for Personkind Enablement. Resources sounds like something you dig out of the ground.

Peter F. Hamilton

Stichwörter: political-correctness



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Random Acts of Kindness," he said. "You need some in your life. Everybody does."
"No, I don't have much of a rak, but hey, this is the twenty-third century, you can get anything fixed if you have enough money.

Peter F. Hamilton

Stichwörter: humanitarianism



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Alien Affairs. Bad name I always thought, makes it sound like they're shagging them rather than investigating them.

Peter F. Hamilton

Stichwörter: crime



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The military do so love shiny new technology, there's always so many ways to abuse it.

Peter F. Hamilton

Stichwörter: military



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What's a lightwave ship?"
"UFO, basically."
"Cool," Angela said.

Peter F. Hamilton

Stichwörter: ufos



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quantum reality, and finding itself emerging in a continuum it had no prior conception of: an energistic vacuum

Peter F. Hamilton


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She couldn't organize an orgy in a brothel.

Peter F. Hamilton

Stichwörter: incompetence



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