Ryan Wilson

“Tactics cohered into strategy, strategy disintegrated into tactics, in the sliding scale of their dialectical moral algebra. It was all more than they ever expected the mammal brain to cope with.”
― Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons

“It would only get tighter or, at best, stop getting tighter for now. The two modes of the Occupation.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, City of Last Chances

“Trauma has a knack for macerating the past so all that remains are the sharp edges of the agony you sustained.”
― Cassandra Khaw, The Library at Hellebore

“He learned more about the Empire itself, its history and politics, philosophy and religion, its beliefs and mores, and its mixtures of subspecies and sexes. It seemed to him to be an unbearably vivid tangle of contradictions; at the same time pathologically violent and lugubriously sentimental, startlingly barbaric and surprisingly sophisticated, fabulously rich and grindingly poor (but also, undeniably, unequivocally fascinating).”
― Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games