Lyricalbard

“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

“And now we honor her memory by celebrating the life we still live,”
― 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

“Laura had read somewhere that tweens—eight to fourteen-year-olds—had so much discretionary income and expensive tastes that they drove the whole economy. Not just the US economy, but the world’s. She”
― J. Carson Black, The Laura Cardinal Novels