Allan Kaster > Quotes

“The data center of the future would have just one man in it, Jimmy said, and one dog. The man’s job was to feed the dog. The dog’s job was to make sure the man didn’t touch anything.”
― Allan Kaster, The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 2

“resile”
― Allan Kaster, The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 3

“The right thing.” Who could know what that was? Imagine all the damned souls who believed they had done the right thing. Who may in fact have done the right thing, and found themselves damned anyway.”
― Allan Kaster, The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 2

“relate some tragedy from the news and express your sad-eyed care, and soon enough, other people’s suffering becomes about you. You convey with raised eyebrow or warped lips that you’re owed some measure of the deference and compassion that the victims are.”
― Allan Kaster, The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 2

“last of the governments on Earth abolished the death penalty,”
― Allan Kaster, The 2020 Look at Mars Fiction Book

“My mother got pregnant without my father’s consent, and when she refused to have an abortion he sued her for copyright infringement.”
― Allan Kaster, The 2020 Look at Space Opera Book

“shipping them to another world and letting them work out their own survival”
― Allan Kaster, The 2020 Look at Mars Fiction Book

“The cataracts on your eyes are four billion years thick;”
― Allan Kaster, The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 3

“Who will take care of your heart and soul? He shrugged. She pointed at him. You will. Promise me. He’d promised, but he wasn’t sure he knew how. He could take care of himself, but that was mere survival. The self is not the soul. The soul is what you were as a child, until you learned to protect it, enclosing that fluttering, vulnerable moth in the fist of the self.”
― Allan Kaster, The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 2

“We’re only different from the bacteria because we are able to ask what the hell this is all about. Not answer, just ask.”
― Allan Kaster, The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 3

“It was as if she was obliged to spend her time here with a small, docile, misshapen rodent sheltering between her legs, helpfully redirecting the flow of her urine by means that really didn’t bear thinking about.”
― Allan Kaster, The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 3

“Much as you might hate to admit it, the insects and bacteria got it right. Intelligence—conscious intelligence like yours—is one of evolution’s dead ends. A failed survival strategy. It gets you where you’re going too quickly for your DNA to catch up.”
― Allan Kaster, The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 2

“without love and art and honor getting in the way. You’ve got it exactly backward. Those don’t make you Human; they make you the same as every animal who ever lived.”
― Allan Kaster, The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 3

“Titan’s light gravity.”
― Allan Kaster, The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 6

“Eternity with a lover was one thing, but with an ex-lover it would be hellish.”
― Allan Kaster, The 2020 Look at Space Opera Book

“But as I continued to think about it, I realized there was a difference, and it was important. The ones on Luna deserved better than they would get. And I could do something about it.”
― Allan Kaster, The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 3

“gods and little fishes,”
― Allan Kaster, The 2020 Look at Space Opera Book

“The time before this wasn’t slumber. It was nonexistence. She had been an inanimate object and then, as of nine seconds ago, she was not.”
― Allan Kaster, The Year's Top Tales of Space and Time

“delusion and schizophrenia during your life? Who could have suspected how much closer prophecy would have been to the mark?”
― Allan Kaster, The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 3

“the refuse of humanity tossed carelessly through space and falling onto the cratered deserts of Mars.”
― Allan Kaster, The 2020 Look at Mars Fiction Book

“expendable enough to send into no-win situations but too stubborn to die.”
― Allan Kaster, The 2020 Look at Space Opera Book

“Court orders we don’t hear about, people modified with no compunction as more and more doctors are able to program such implants. Does anyone really believe in an era when we call torture “enhanced interrogation” that we wouldn’t perform brain surgery on a Guantanamo Bay inmate in the name of national security?”
― Allan Kaster, The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 3

“You like to think your intelligence is in control, but it’s really nothing but a tool your DNA evolved to help it accomplish what it wants.”
― Allan Kaster, The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 2

“The Diffence Between Love and Time Catherynne M. Valente”
― Allan Kaster, The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 7

“The weather had bloomed into the fragile clarity of a perfect spring day, the type of day that only came in tiny crystals before being smothered by summer.”
― Allan Kaster, The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 3

“Martian Mean Gravity Surface (no sea level).”
― Allan Kaster, The 2020 Look at Mars Fiction Book