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Sex, sex, there was nothing like sex, except for flying, which it much resembled: the rapture of the body, yet another echo of the Big Bang, that first orgasm.

— Kim Stanley Robinson Blue Mars (1996)

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The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.

Galileo's Dream (2009)

Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can’t grasp the current situation.

Red Mars (1992)

It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.

Green Mars (1993)

When some French were assembling an encyclopedia of paranormal experiences, they decided to leave déjà vu out, because it was so common it could not be considered paranormal.

Galileo's Dream (2009)

We live in a universe ruled by very few laws, but the redoubling of violence by violence is one of the main ones.

The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)

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