Quotes from Absolution Gap — Alastair Reynolds
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)
I’m fed up with everyone being lied to just because the administration thinks it’s in our best interests not to know all the facts.
Absolution Gap (2003)
He’s not really a religious man, but he knows which side his bread’s buttered on. The churches pay his salary, so he doesn’t want anyone rocking the boat with unorthodox rumours.
Absolution Gap (2003)
Memo to himself: the one way to make people panic was to warn them not to.
Absolution Gap (2003)
Rashmika could tell when anyone around her was lying. But seeing through her own deceptions was another matter entirely.
Absolution Gap (2003)
Maps had never really been his thing, even during his days under Scorpio in Chasm City. There, it had hardly mattered. Blood’s motto had always been that if you needed a map to find your way around a neighbourhood, you were already in trouble.
Absolution Gap (2003)
But sanity, Vasko decided, was like the pattern of lights he could see through his cabin window. In almost any direction the only way to travel was into darkness, and there was a lot more darkness than light.
Absolution Gap (2003)
It was a glaring omission, a sign of cosmic sloppiness. Not even that, Vasko corrected himself. It was a sign of cosmic obliviousness. The universe didn’t know what was happening here. It didn’t know and it didn’t care. It didn’t even know that it didn’t know.
Absolution Gap (2003)