Alastair Reynolds on Easter
born 1966 United Kingdom
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All machines knew what would happen to them when their masters lost faith in their infallibility.
Absolution Gap (2003)
Such hopes now seemed ludicrous in their naivety, like trying to stop a bulldozer with a feather.
Pushing Ice (2005)
Given the evidence at our disposal, only a fool would put any faith in the organic and the machine living harmoniously for the rest of time.
House of Suns (2008)
“There’s still hope.”
But a small, private voice said: there’s hope, and there’s desperation.
Pushing Ice (2005)
Goma shook her head. “No. We don’t speak of souls. Not now, not ever. Souls aren’t real.”
“Patterns, then. Abstract structures of experience and reaction, making up a consistent, continuous human identity.”
Poseidon's Wake (2015)
There had been a human soul in that skull only a few hours earlier, and now no authority in the universe could bring her back. We were like monkeys sitting around a fire that had just extinguished, wondering why the warmth and light had gone away.
House of Suns (2008)