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Humans and augmented humans in close quarters with murderbots is too awkward. At least, it’s awkward for this murderbot.


“Why do I even love him anymore? Nassun finds herself thinking as she stares at her father.”
― The Obelisk Gate
― The Obelisk Gate

“Don’t lament when those worlds fall. Rage that they were built doomed in the first place.”
― The Stone Sky
― The Stone Sky

“There were stories in the newspapers, of course, corpses in ditches or the woods, bludgeoned to death or mutilated, interfered with, as they used to say, but they were about other women, and the men who did such things were other men. None of them were the men we knew.”
― The Handmaid's Tale
― The Handmaid's Tale

“So where they should have seen a living being, they saw only another thing to exploit. Where they should have asked, or left alone, they raped.”
― The Stone Sky
― The Stone Sky

“I don’t have much to say except a warning. Life reached an evolutionary milestone when it climbed onto land from the ocean, but those first fish that climbed onto land ceased to be fish. Similarly, when humans truly enter space and are freed from the Earth, they cease to be human. So, to all of you I say this: When you think about heading into outer space without looking back, please reconsider. The cost you must pay is far greater than you could imagine. *”
― Death's End
― Death's End

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