Alasdair C. Shaw > Quotes

“Countless believers have begged me to intercede on their behalf while I sleep on in ignorance. ​So many wasted prayers, thrown away like wishes down a well.”
― Alasdair C. Shaw, The Newcomer: Twelve Science Fiction Short Stories

“time. Damn God for leaving him on this forsaken world! What kind of loving Father would do that to His most faithful servant? Try as he might, Jacob began to believe less in that love and more in the notion that God was nothing more than a cruel, capricious bastard.”
― Alasdair C. Shaw, The Newcomer: Twelve Science Fiction Short Stories

“Some theories say time is already complete and part of the physical universe... that we're only experiencing the illusion of travelling through it. Others say there are multitudes of futures, each decided whenever there's a choice of possibilities.”
― Alasdair C. Shaw, The Officer: Eleven Science Fiction Short Stories

“A fair number of the nobility don’t worry about anything unless they can drink it, inject it or get a leg over it.”
― Alasdair C. Shaw, The Officer: Eleven Science Fiction Short Stories