Lyricalbard

“Everyone crowded onto the bus’s observation decks to watch the show. Their flat surfaces extended out from the main body of the bus like a pair of stubby wings; each surrounded by an inertial field that trapped a bubble of air for the passengers. For all practical purposes they was standing outside, directly confronting the vacuum of space. “Am I the only one feeling nervous?” Carson said. Certainly the schoolchildren seemed unperturbed. They were daring each other to peer over the edge of the deck. “I mean, how can that be safe?” “You big silly,” chided Aiyana. To Carson’s horror she ran full tilt across the deck and leapt into the black abyss. At two meters out her trajectory came to a smooth halt; the inertial field spun her around and gently returned her to the surface. After a moment of frozen shock all the schoolchild began hurling themselves into the void. From that moment she was their idol. A”
― Chris Mead, Swallow the Sky: A Space Opera

“First you get the data,” Dylan said. “Then you create the theory that fits the data. Then you test the theory against reality. That’s how science advances.” “So”
― C.F. Barnes, To the Stars and Back: Space Opera to Cyberpunk 5 Book Box Set

“Out there on an endless number of worlds there must be other life, other people, creatures, types of life forms, all thinking they matter. But individually, they, including himself, those on the station, and those on Earth, amounted to so little. And yet that smallness mattered so much. A tiny blip of life on a dust fragment spinning through space had all the meaning in the universe. It”
― C.F. Barnes, To the Stars and Back: Space Opera to Cyberpunk 5 Book Box Set

“In fact, Nick had not run into anything yet that he didn’t consider trash. There were too many blacks and Mexicans and Puerto Ricans. Not to mention, too many rich, stuck-up, white people. Elite, better-than-you types that really pissed Nick off. He had to get back to the damn South and fast.”
― Stan R. Mitchell, Sold Out