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“Someone’s hand clamps down on my shoulder and it’s one of the men trimming the vegetables on Baldwin Street. He wears a white apron stained with dirt and smears of green and red. “Go from here,” he says to me.”
― Michael Redhill, Bellevue Square

“If you see Ingrid, don’t look at her. Walk the other way.” I give him a two-dollar coin and he returns to the background, like he’s part of an endless line of characters provided by a talent agency.”
― Michael Redhill, Bellevue Square

“Back in 1956, they had one-way broadcast radio communications for voice and limited black and white video that were limited by transmission power and two-way communications either by line of sight radio or copper wires. The best speed of communications for the next seventy-five years was the speed of light by radio, laser, or fiber optic. Even after sending probes to Jupiter and Saturn it would take more than a day for a single still image to be received on Earth. Today, we have the Ansible, utilizing applied quantum entanglement; providing near-instantaneous communication at bandwidth and distances that back then only science fiction authors dreamed of achieving.”
― Eric Klein, The One: A Cruise Through the Solar System

“I do my own habitual scan. I’ve already completed mental check-offs of the drunks, the painfully pierced, and there have been two iced coffees and a couple sharing a starfruit. Miriam is back in her spot. I go over and ask her, “If you could go back in time and kill Hitler as a baby, would you?”
― Michael Redhill, Bellevue Square