William’s Reviews > In the Mouth of the Whale > Status Update
William
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..... "But later in her life, whenever she thought of her mother and the things her mother had taught her, she always recalled that moment. It was the archetype of many such moments. So lives are shaped backwards, by what we choose to remember."
— Mar 24, 2017 06:49AM
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William
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... Wow. Estoteric, what! ..."some place colder than absolute zero: a region of negative energy where atoms had not merely stopped moving, but had lost all integrity and shrivelled into the strings that composed their basic particles, and the strings themselves had frozen and ceased singing."
— Mar 25, 2017 07:01PM
William
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.... who knows what a "strange attractor"? Anyone? Awesome! .... "New recruits were also bad luck, according to the pilots. They were strange attractors that generated all kinds of chaos that was best kept way out front, away from everyone else."
— Mar 25, 2017 01:51PM
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.... the cyberpunk hacking language here is the best I have ever seen. Delicious! (Note, I have been a first class programmer since I was 16 in 1969)
— Mar 24, 2017 04:51PM
William
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... Paul McAuley is truly a writer of the first calibre. I encourage you all to discover especially his Quiet War series, of which this is the third book
— Mar 22, 2017 04:55PM
William
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... Lyrical, eloquent, poignant, beautiful first chapter. So wonderful to read this
— Mar 21, 2017 07:47AM
