Status Updates From The Doors of Eden

"'Fuck me, you don't get this kind of heckling from the Royal Society. '"

"... but if he had been in their shoes, he would have fed Rove to the closest woolly mammoth or let the giant trilobite shit them out into space."

"No point having a complete mastery of quantum entanglement when you still have to stick a spear in an auroch for dinner."

"... You °really° can't cover up a woodlouse the size of a borough, hanging over London."

"The calm translation relayed its chittering as, 'I am the great scientist Dr. Rat. '"

Howling with glee. Just kicking my feet in pleasure at this.

"She will have ideas that come from places our history has closed the doors to. And it will not just be her and us. There will be other minds, all working. Only one needs to find the answer, but difference is strength. To save everything, we need as much difference as possible."

"And if he had to push through dense foliage that left waxy smears of sap on his hands, if he had to wade through knee-deep channels of salt-smelling water, none of it mattered. It was go forward or go mad.

" It put his worries about being fired into perspective, anyway. "

"Only, if the world is going to pop like a soap bubble, what does it matter which world we're on?

Mal the brutal pragmatist, blowing right past the existential terror.

"Mal had always talked a good revolution but seldom acted on it..."

So evocative!

I've been audiobooking this one and the narration is great. A bit more on the fantasy side of SFF than I usually go for but often find myself making that exception for AT. Also this one is very queer. I have some feelings about the way the yrans character is handled but they are a bit more gray area ideas than thinking it is right or wrong.