“Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.”
― Hyperion
― Hyperion
“In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.”
― Hyperion
― Hyperion
“In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.”
― Hyperion
― Hyperion
“Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion”
― Hyperion
― Hyperion
“It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.”
― Hyperion
― Hyperion
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