Shaun Pinkham > Quotes

“Malachi Sokabasin was the head of that team and it’s youngest member. Malachi was a Penobscot Indian, with black hair in a long braid and dark”
― Shaun Pinkham, Journey To Watchman's World: A Tale of the Martian Mountaineers

“As a victory it was hard to feel anything but horrified by it. This time I didn’t even have the justification of self defense. I had shown up in a relatively peaceful system and over the course of my visit had initiated a civil war that had killed thousands and threatened to kill millions more. It wasn’t even my fight and it was hard to get my mind fixed on how terribly wrong it had all gone.”
― Shaun Pinkham, Journey To Watchman's World: A Tale of the Martian Mountaineers

“Bacchus’s engines use an oscillating field of extra-dimensional interaction to produce intermittent areas of susceptibility to dark energy on a mounted armature. The armature rotates, powering the turbines that collect and eject the dark matter. Simple and efficient.”
― Shaun Pinkham, Journey To Watchman's World: A Tale of the Martian Mountaineers

“I was mistaken in citing the prohibition on unauthorized intelligences.” “How so?” “You didn’t qualify.” “As unauthorized?” “No, as intelligent.”
― Shaun Pinkham, Journey To Watchman's World: A Tale of the Martian Mountaineers

“What could go wrong? we’re just going to zip off to the asteroid belt, pick up a load of weapons so dangerous Watchman had to had hide them on a whole different planet, then come back and chase off the Russian army. I don’t know what we’ll do after lunch.”
― Shaun Pinkham, Journey To Watchman's World: A Tale of the Martian Mountaineers

“It’s not a thing anywhere but on Earth Mike. You’re kinds willingness to seek out danger as a recreation is an anomaly”
― Shaun Pinkham, Journey To Watchman's World: A Tale of the Martian Mountaineers

“how the hell do you sleep with the weight of three worlds...” I gestured around me. “Make that a hundred and three worlds, riding on your mind. Jesus Mike we have screwed things up so badly.”
― Shaun Pinkham, Journey To Watchman's World: A Tale of the Martian Mountaineers