Quotes from Between the Strokes of Night — Charles Sheffield
1935–2002 England
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And now I think about it, I never really wanted to live forever. I just want to live well.
Between the Strokes of Night (1985)
A long time ago humans talked of terraforming Mars and Venus, but we never did it. Just too busy blowing ourselves up, I guess, ever to get round to it.
Between the Strokes of Night (1985)
“It is my personal belief that nothing can exceed light speed,” said Sy at last. “I will mistrust anyone, government or Immortal, man or woman, human or alien, who attempts to tell me otherwise without providing convincing evidence.”
Between the Strokes of Night (1985)
Where orbits are wildly varying, life has no chance to develop. Changes are too extreme. Temperatures melt tin, then solidify nitrogen. If it is once established, life is persistent; it can adapt to many extremes. But there is a fragility in the original creation that calls for a long period of tightly-controlled variations.
Between the Strokes of Night (1985)