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There were the usual anxieties, starkly revealing the uneasiness that ordinary intellectuals had with science.
Cosm (1998)
All the astronauts were easy on the eyes. No coincidence. NASA didn’t train people the public wouldn’t want to watch.
The Martian Race (1999)
—Y’know, fact that nobody understands you doesn’t mean you’re some kinda genius.
Aspects (2015)
I started out with nothing and still have most of it left.
Aspects (2015)
To shine is better than to reflect.
Timescape (1980)
“So he looks like a potential Mr. Right?”
“No, just Mr. Right Now.”
Cosm (1998)
She had long ago stopped counting how many times the 0.38 g of Mars had helped them through crucial moments. It had proved the only useful aspect of the planet.
The Martian Race (1999)
Every age is known by its pleasures, Fielding reads from the library readout. The twentieth introduced two: high speed and hallucinogenic drugs. Both proved dangerous in the long run, which made them even more interesting.
In Alien Flesh (1986)
Well, this was what dads were for: saying the unsayable when you needed it.
Cosm (1998)
Seeker laughed. “You are so—well, human. You always think you are the ultimate.”
“And…we’re not.”
Seeker inspected the ceiling. “It seems unlikely.”
Beyond Infinity (2004)
Hubris. They disliked questions unless there were clear answers. They believed so much in their method that they conjured up certainty out of undeniable risk.
Artifact (1985)
Major Sánchez grunted. “Nice word, ‘trivial.’ Means you got it—cojones—you got no worry. If you don’t—”
Against Infinity (1983)
Schools praised diversity but were culturally the same. Different skin color, same opinions.
The Man Who Sold The Stars (2013)
There was more known, but always more to be known.
Yes, she thought, and the unknown can masquerade as the unknowable.
The Sunborn (2005)
Once introduced into this world, life would never leave—there was no end to the explosive, consuming, voracious lust of long chain molecules to link and match and make of themselves yet more and more and again more.
Against Infinity (1983)
She had once looked up the term ‘lawyer’ and found it was someone who helped you fight laws.
Aspects (2015)
To peer through the quick stubble of mathematics and see the wonders lurking behind was to momentarily live in the infinite, beyond the press of the ordinary world where everyone else dwelled in ignorance.
Cosm (1998)
Minds embodies in strange shapes would still find themselves sharpened against evolution’s ceaseless whetstone.
What challenges would they face? In the end the universe as a whole was life’s ultimate opponent.
Cosm (1998)
I like Orange County, though. It’s like L.A. without caffeine.
Cosm (1998)
Information wants to be free—remember that old saw? Some truth to it, only it’s backwards. This isn’t an information economy—we’re drowning in that—it’s an attention economy. That’s what everybody’s vying for.
Cosm (1998)