Jamil Nasir Quotes
born 1955 United States
Jamil Nasir (born 18 December 1955) is an American science fiction and fantasy author.
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Blaine sometimes wished he lived in a culture where everything wasn’t everybody’s business.
Tower of Dreams (1999)
Ridiculous to trust your life to these senseless AI things, he thought as he uploaded it to the net; but nowadays it was the only way you could find out anything, search through the massive information overload on the net and everywhere else.
Tower of Dreams (1999)
A coldness had come over Blaine in the hot, windy, smoky air. It was a chill that never quite left you after it had gotten inside you, he would find out later, but sometimes welled up again from nowhere, leaving you not afraid exactly, but believing that nothing could ever work out for the better in this world.
Tower of Dreams (1999)
As it was, deformed and made mad by his hellish life, he had become what prophets had probably always been: not frauds, for they themselves believed what they had seen, but pitiful creatures, dreaming some salvation from this crushing world in their malfunctioning brains. Yaum ed din, the crazy little man, the prophet Aida’s John the Baptist, had said: the Day of Religion, the Muslim’s term for Judgment Day. Yaum ed din, the last consolation of the crazy and the weak.
Tower of Dreams (1999)