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Quotes from The Annihilation Score — Charles Stross

born 1964 England

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8 quotes

It’s amazing how much work you can get done in three days if you hold a blowtorch to each end of the candle.

The Annihilation Score (2015)

If pauses can be pregnant, this one’s on the run from a fertility clinic.

The Annihilation Score (2015)

Unfortunately his IQ seems to be off the scale, in the wrong direction.

The Annihilation Score (2015)

If life hands your research department lemons and a recipe, you shouldn’t be surprised if they make lemonade for you. Or, better still, anti-lemonade countermeasures.

The Annihilation Score (2015)

Despair, dismay, disorientation, and delusion: the four horsemen of the bureaucratic apocalypse are coming my way.

The Annihilation Score (2015)

And she actually looks—well, I’m not sure how to describe her. Scary is such an inadequate word, don’t you think?

The Annihilation Score (2015)

“I’m disappointed in you, Mo: How could you imagine that the militarization of the police might be seen as a huge potential growth market by defense contractors?”
“How indeed.”

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The American mainstream news media have so far steered well clear of the subject because the phenomenon has been enthusiastically embraced by the talk radio fringe, leading to a death spiral of diminishing credibility.

The Annihilation Score (2015)

Attribution

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