Robert G. Williscroft > Quotes

“In many ways fast cruise is tougher than being out to sea. When you're out, you just do your job, and take in stride what comes along. During fast cruise you deliberately push everything to the limit. If it's going to break, better alongside the pier than 2,000 miles away from nowhere, or on the bottom in the Soviets' back yard.”
― Robert G. Williscroft, Operation Ivy Bells

“What also happened, however, was that another DSRV-equipped submarine put to sea occasionally, except that this DSRV really was a saturation diving chamber designed to look like a DSRV. The job of these guys was no more and no less than to retrieve pieces of Soviet missile warheads from the ocean bottom at the splash zone of their test site in the Sea of Okhotsk, and to tap into the Soviet underwater communications cables snaking along the bottom through that area.”
― Robert G. Williscroft, Operation Ivy Bells

“He was especially good at making money with an entrepreneurial flair. This is what had enabled him to preserve his head when cancer had taken him so prematurely”
― Robert G. Williscroft, Icicle: A Tensor Matrix

“Kenred looked at Jocara, eyes wide open and blinking. “You do it, Girl! Be the first Arcan to pilot a starship between stars!”
― Robert G. Williscroft, RAN: A Civilization in Hiding: The Third Oort Chronicle

“The Great Dragon has spoken to me, telling me of wonders to come, and of his increased presence among us.”
― Robert G. Williscroft, RAN: A Civilization in Hiding: The Third Oort Chronicle