a local pigeon—six compound eyes and bat wings covered with feathery cilia
“I told NASA what I did. Our (paraphrased) conversation was: Me: “I took it apart, found the problem, and fixed it.” NASA: “Dick.”
― The Martian
― The Martian
“Among us we represent islands of time as well as separate oceans of perspective.”
― Hyperion
― Hyperion
“What I want is Ceres Station or Earth or Mars. You know what they have in New York? All-night diners with greasy food and crap coffee. I want to live on a world with all-night diners. And racetracks. And instant-delivery Thai food made from something I haven’t already eaten seven times in the last month.”
― Cibola Burn
― Cibola Burn
“Maybe, if they could find a way to be gentle, the stars would be better off with them.”
― Babylon’s Ashes
― Babylon’s Ashes
“On the bottom staff—the taste of earth, worms, and dust; the smell of dead leaves and frankincense. On the top—the luminosity of awareness making sense of transience and predestination. Three quiet major chords marked the moment of death, because death was sweet. It was our true home, the home we'd left and been trying to get back to. It's what we had passed through before and would pass through again, a moment of truth that suspended the weight of thought, the weight of the will to inhabit a dead universe.”
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