Lee Colleton

“A significant proportion of the work of the Reclamation and Reconstruction Corps had been concerned with replacement of topsoil lost by erosion caused by overfarming, or poisoned by industry during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, or stripped away by floods and hyperstorms during the Overturn.”
― Paul McAuley, The Quiet War

“Once upon a time, women were the equals of men. Not only by law, although that was important, and the result of many hard-fought and difficult battles. But also by culture and by custom. Men came to accept that women should have the same rights of self-determination that they enjoyed. But then there was the Overturn, and the great crisis caused by sudden and catastrophic climate change.”
― Paul McAuley, In the Mouth of the Whale

“A dead brain, its molecules fastened in place by embalming fluid, is a monument to the thoughts and feelings that once lived inside.”
― Sebastian Seung, Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are

“You are the activity of your neurons.”
― Sebastian Seung, Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are