Martin Schuh

“...what if, even as you replace everyone with robots that are cheaper and quicker and less likely to join a union or complain about working conditions, you also continue to insist that individual value is tied to production, and everyone who’s idle is a parasite scrounging off the state? Take away the ability of people to perform their own tasks and duties with no steps to provide for them when they are rendered obsolete. A growing rump of humans without function, livelihood, or resource. Paradoxically, the introduction of robots highlights how humans treat humans.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Service Model

“providing very high levels of service coupled with a very low, albeit nonzero, level of murder.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Service Model

“Oh, I’ve no sense of self-preservation,” Reynard replied easily. “That’s what I depend on you for.”
― Martha Wells, The Death of the Necromancer

“Can you be a trifle more obscure? I think I almost understood what you said that last time.”
― Martha Wells, The Death of the Necromancer