Dan Baugh > Recent Status Updates

Save… Earth… Save… Erid

"The company did not survive, unfortunately. Because the technology only works on one in every seven thousand people and thus has limited commercial potential.”

‘I guess he’d worked that all out a while ago.’
‘I wasn’t expecting company.’

‘Also, until I hear otherwise, his name is Rocky.’

If I need the average rectal temperature of a healthy goat, I can find out!

“ Dr Ryland Grace, I hear by grant you top-secret clearance to all information pertaining to Project Hail Mary.”

“Okay, it’s exactly like that.”

“I know Liberia uses imperial units but I don’t know my own name. That’s irritating.”

“All the habits of Man are evil.”

The wan is going to complicate things… I think she is an SS agent too…

Not usually my genre = very, very interested

‘Because we believe in God, we believe in Germany which He created in His works, and in the Führer, Adolf Hitler, whom He has sent us.’

“Children had been given a week off for the Führer’s birthday, rather than for Easter”

“Every drop of water is her, reminding us that we will never learn to endure this pain”

Simon + Marie = connected by love, disconnected by marriage

So they were certainly people who thought that feelings could not be judged by looking at cars. But they were wrong.

“She laughed and laughed and laughed until the vowels were rolling across the walls and floors, as if they meant to do away with the laws of time and space.”

“Everything else on the paper is drawn in black, but the figure in the middle is a veritable explosion of colour. A riot of yellow and red and blue and green and orange and purple.”

“We’ll have to get a Saab estate then,” he said.


“Sẽnor, Saab!!!”

“But if anyone had asked, he would have told them that he never lived before he met her. And by after, either.”

“Men are what they are because of what they do, not what they say.”

“You only need one day of light to chase the shadows away.”

What a great introduction to character and setting. I’m already rooting for him1