Gerald M. Kilby > Quotes

“In the end, there is no more terrifying a place than your own mind.”
― Gerald M. Kilby, COLONY MARS COMPLETE EDITION: BOOKS 1-7

“This may be our last transmit for some time, we cannot spare the power. Sandstorm continues unabated, it will never end. We are down to 17% energy levels and have deactivated all non-essential systems. Solar array unable to recharge batteries due to darkened sky, running at only 7% efficiency. Plutonium power source has failed and attempts by EVA to find the fault have proved fatal. Those who have ventured outside to investigate have not returned. If the storm does not clear we”
― Gerald M. Kilby, Colony One Mars

“imagination”
― Gerald M. Kilby, Colony One Mars

“quite get over his youthful appearance.”
― Gerald M. Kilby, Colony One Mars

“Nills examined the rows of overripe tomatoes. Some had already fallen from the vine and would be good for nothing except composting.”
― Gerald M. Kilby, Colony One Mars

“Yet with all this self-examination, she began to feel that maybe she wasn’t all that different from her mother. There was an allure to this lifestyle, a sense of being above the messy, dirty strata of common life. She could feel it calling to her, pulling at her sense of self-worth, telling her she was special, that she deserved this. But where would that lead? Would it lead to a place where relationships became simply about how much someone could do for her? She shuddered; maybe she wasn’t so different from her mother after all.”
― Gerald M. Kilby, Entropy

“Jann smiled and looked around her. He did have a point, even if he was just joking. It had a beauty to it, like an oasis in a world gone mad, even if that oasis was 140 million miles away. “Yeah, I might.” “Although it’s better when you have someone to share it with.” He smiled and at that moment Jann found herself quite attracted to this enigmatic soul. He radiated calm and serenity and Jann felt herself drawn in by its glow.”
― Gerald M. Kilby, Colony One Mars

“One could argue they are products of the machine, a machine whose only concern is the acquisition of ever greater wealth, and the self-aggrandizement of the egos that control it.”
― Gerald M. Kilby, Colony Three Mars

“foreboding hanging over everyone. The news of the destruction”
― Gerald M. Kilby, Solar Storm

“fictitiously.”
― Gerald M. Kilby, Colony One Mars

“For a long time I thought of this place, this Earth, as my home. But now as I look around, all I see is what’s not there anymore, what’s gone. I now understand that home is not about place, it’s about people.”
― Gerald M. Kilby, Colony Three Mars

“Life would be so much easier if we only had the source code." Anon.”
― Gerald M. Kilby, Reaction

“I mean, there’s no way on Earth, or Mars for that matter, that they will agree to this and then actually adhere to it. They’ll say, yeah sure, and then find a way to renege at the very first opportunity.”
― Gerald M. Kilby, Colony Three Mars

“that, they come for you.” Nills jabbed”
― Gerald M. Kilby, Colony Two Mars

“These events you speak of are yet to happen. And they are just one path of many possible outcomes. For it to come to pass a great many possibilities must line up in the correct sequence. Any disruption to that path, any deviation, no matter how small, will bring a different outcome.”
― Gerald M. Kilby, Colony Three Mars

“The human mind was a fragile thing, kept in balance only by the company of others. We are social animals, we feel safe in the herd, and desire its acceptance. Alone, the human mind wanders with no clear purpose, nothing to keep it in balance.”
― Gerald M. Kilby, Colony One Mars

“launch, Macallester started feeling unwell. An examination by the ISA medical team quickly diagnosed a viral infection. Not life threatening, but she would not be fit for the mission. So, after much deliberation and hand wringing by the ISA directorate, Dr. Jann Malbec got the call. She was officially next in line and checked most of the boxes for most of the stakeholders but she was least experienced in terms of astronaut training.”
― Gerald M. Kilby, Colony One Mars

“If you want to start a war, then you best be prepared for the consequences if you lose.”
― Gerald M. Kilby, Colony Three Mars

“Purchase”
― Gerald M. Kilby, Colony One Mars

“through her gut as her stomach began to form a closer relationship with her throat. The staccato voice of the first officer echoed in her headset as she checked off stats. “Mach one point seven, altitude ten point one, lateral drift two point two. Get ready, deploying chutes…” With that, three”
― Gerald M. Kilby, Colony One Mars

“It is time for you to leave the capsule, if you dare.”
― Gerald M. Kilby, Colony Mars Boxset

“entrance”
― Gerald M. Kilby, Colony Mars Boxset

“Mia lost all sense of motion and felt instead a strange sense of calm. The vast panoply of stars enveloped her and she began to experience a deep existential epiphany. She felt at one with the universe, compiled from the very atoms that had been forged in the celestial cauldron that expanded out all around her into infinity. At that moment Mia felt an inner peace so profound that she was content to die now, in this place, surrounded by the heavens.”
― Gerald M. Kilby, COLONY MARS COMPLETE EDITION: BOOKS 1-7

“He was the only one of us to smoke a lot of weed.”
― Gerald M. Kilby, Colony Three Mars

“need”
― Gerald M. Kilby, Emergence

“sometimes we choose for ourselves and sometimes fate chooses for us,”
― Gerald M. Kilby, Colony One Mars

“looks like we’re about one klick from the HAB beacon.” The commander pointed to a flashing blip on the main screen. “ If our calculations are correct then the sandstorm should be about five kilometers west of us. Plenty of time to reach the Habitation Module.” They had been tracking the storm for some time while still on board the Odyssey. After much deliberation with ISA Mission Control it was decided to land now before the storm had chance to grow. If left too long it could engulf the entire area, making”
― Gerald M. Kilby, Colony One Mars

“would”
― Gerald M. Kilby, Colony Mars Boxset

“And the history of societies ruled by minority elites never ends well.”
― Gerald M. Kilby, Colony Two Mars

“There really was no law on Mars but your own.”
― Gerald M. Kilby, Colony One Mars