“helped me to make my superstorm as plausible as possible. Lydia Chilton helped me create a realistic AI. Mike Swirsky was a huge help with the Siberian drilling project, and Dr. Dave Goldberg helped a lot with the weird physics. I also learned a lot from the Cornell Bird Lab. Lightninglouie gave the book its epigraph. And my father helped me a lot with the book’s philosophical conundrums, while my mother helped me think about how”
― All the Birds in the Sky
― All the Birds in the Sky
“Just before midnight, the clouds disappeared. “Hey hey,” Tamura said placidly. “Got Jupiter for you.” Skyler dumped his guitar in its case and sprang to the console.”
― Freefall
― Freefall
“Way up here, 13,700 feet above sea level, the only sound was the wind. The dry, thin air tickled Skyler’s throat. He shivered and zipped his parka all the way up against the cold. Patches of snow dappled the slopes around the parking lot, although spring had already come to Hilo, down on the coast, where he was staying.”
― Freefall
― Freefall
“Well, he definitely didn’t want to think about that. Cameron listened, but nothing came. He’d heard a phantom sound, or perhaps whoever was out there had finally found them, and was now in hiding, waiting for them to emerge.”
― Judgment
― Judgment
“Thank God there weren’t any Chinese on the ISS, anyway! The atmosphere would have been so frigid, they’d have frost on the inside of the portholes.”
― Freefall
― Freefall
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