Matter is lazy. It resists change. It wants to keep on doing whatever it's doing, whether that's sitting still or moving. We call that laziness inertia, but that doesn't mean we understand it. For a thousand years we've labelled it, quantified it, caged it in equations, but we've still only scratched the surface of what it really is.
Alastair ReynoldsNiagara made a careful gesture, like some religious benediction: a diagonal slice across his chest and a stab to the heart. ‘A slash and a dot,’ he said. ‘I doubt it means anything to you, but this was once the mark of an alliance of progressive thinkers linked together by one of the very first computer networks. The Federation of Polities can trace its existence right back to that fragile collective, in the early decades of the Void Century. It’s less a stigma than a mark of community.
Alastair ReynoldsTag: slashdot
It was a wartime story, goodies versus baddies, lots of explosions and shooting. The Germans always shouted 'Aiiieeee!' as they died. Atkins wondered what he would choose, confronted with similar circumstances. 'Aiiieeee!' seemed to him to lack the necessary gravitas and originality, as well as sounding a bit, well, German. But then who knew what might come to mind, in those final moments?
Alastair ReynoldsTag: war last-words death
You're confident he'll have found him, then?"
"Well, no. I didn't sat that."
"If there's one thing I hate," Volyova said, looking coldly at the other Triumvir, "it's mindless optimism.
Arethusa liked to call us Poseidon’s Children. Orphans of the storm. We’d endured the worst the world could throw at us, the worst consequences of our own stupidity, and came through ... ready to face the dawn. But there are always more storms, Chiku.
Alastair ReynoldsTag: poseidon-s-children
I am Chiku Akinya. I am the daughter of Sunday Akinya; I am the grand-daughter of Eunice Akinya – Senge Dongma, the lion-faced one, mother of us all...
Alastair ReynoldsTag: senge-dongma
None of us is a monster, Chiku. We’re all just trying to make the best of our singular natures.
Alastair ReynoldsTag: monster
An idea so dangerous it can’t be discussed. I thought we buried all that nonsense back in the Dark Ages.
Alastair ReynoldsTag: idea
Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.
Alastair ReynoldsTag: autocratic
It’s one thing to be given a big boxful of theory and quite another to make an engine out of it.
Alastair ReynoldsTag: theory
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