5 quotes
“So it’s false.”
“What isn’t?”
“Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.”
The Player of Games (1988)
The news team, and Hamin, seemed well pleased. “You should have been an actor, Jernau Gurgeh,” Hamin told him.
Gurgeh assumed this was intended as a compliment.
The Player of Games (1988)
He looked up from it at the stars again, and the view was warped and distorted by something in his eyes, which at first he thought was rain.
The Player of Games (1988)
It looks perverted and wasteful to us, but then one thing that empires are not about is the efficient use of resources and the spread of happiness; both are typically accomplished despite the economic short-circuiting—corruption and favoritism, mostly—endemic to the system.
The Player of Games (1988)
“I’m very sorry,” the drone said, without a trace of contrition.
The Player of Games (1988)