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Adrian Tchaikovsky Quotes

born 1972 England

Adrian Tchaikovsky (born June 1972) is a British fantasy and science fiction author.

England
Novelists

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13 quotes

Long-term thinking requires a clarity the natural human mind is not good at.

Elder Race (2021)

Aunt Charla is one of those people who take pride in not knowing about anything that’s changed in the world in the last thirty years.

Saturation Point (2024)

The place gave a bad name to dingy and escaped being run-down only because it had never been up.

Dress Rehearsal (2016)

I am nothing but a scientist of sufficiently advanced technology, which is to say a magician.

Elder Race (2021)

Memory is fallible. Dreams overwrite the reality, fond fantasies inform the dreams.

Saturation Point (2024)

And I had been manipulated, surely, but an actor, of all people, has no business complaining he has been tricked.

Dress Rehearsal (2016)

He seemed dead, but perhaps “dead” meant something different. Perhaps it meant something less permanent.

Elder Race (2021)

By all means, go up to the surface and have the run of the Zone, Doctor Marks. Pit the indefatigability of your human spirit against the planet. See how that goes for you.

Saturation Point (2024)

I’m telling it now. And I’m trying to remember how it actually was. Not just how I remember remembering it. But memory is a hard disk that overwrites itself constantly.

Saturation Point (2024)

I’m the expert, God help us all.

Saturation Point (2024)

Just because I did good doesn’t mean I don’t feel bad, because the feeling bad, it’s not particularly because of anything that’s happened, it’s just the way I’m wired.

Elder Race (2021)

MARKS: It’s not fair.
MARKS: Evolution isn’t about being fair. It’s about adapting to changing circumstances.

Saturation Point (2024)

The emergent ecologies that were recolonising the place were very light on mammals and birds. You got little ones, mostly nocturnal even when their ancestors had been diurnal. The big winners were amphibians, reptiles, bugs. Because hot and damp works for ectotherms.

Saturation Point (2024)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Adrian Tchaikovsky (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.