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“Calvin raised his fingers in lazy acknowledgement. “So . . .” he said. “The shit’s about to match coordinates with the fan.”
― Revelation Space
― Revelation Space
“An earlier type of virtual-reality technology, much more robust and completely unaffected by time lag. You may have heard of it. We called it “reading”.”
― Blue Remembered Earth
― Blue Remembered Earth
“When we die there are two things we can leave behind us: genes and memes.”
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“All data is stale. The photons reaching your eyes are stale. They tell you that you are looking at something real, but you have no information that the objects before you still exist. They may have vanished into oblivion the instant those photons took wing.”
― House of Suns
― House of Suns
“Gravity ruled, and gravity did not take into account circumstances, or the unfairness of things, or listen to eleventh-hour petitions before reluctantly repealing its laws. Gravity crushed, and near the surface of a neutron star gravity crushed absolutely, until diamond flowed like water; until a mountain collapsed into a millionth of its height.”
― Revelation Space
― Revelation Space
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