Gerhard’s Reviews > Livid Skies > Status Update

Desmond caught me looking at him. He grinned and winked. ‘What’s the matter? Have you never seen a grown man chestfeeding his newborn baby before?’

'Democracy relies on opposition – otherwise it’s just tyranny of the majority.’

'Rosa and I were enjoying an afternoon off, sitting in the White Hart. I thought back to the day we’d met, in London at interviews for top secret jobs. And now, here we were. An asexual autistic physicist and a polyamorous lesbian plumber. On Mars.'

'I said a silent prayer for the world we’d left behind.'

I grinned. ‘It surprises you to learn I’m Muslim?’
They both nodded again.
'What? You don’t think a black American lesbian can be Muslim?’

'We can have fully automated luxury gay space communism when we find a supply of unlimited resources – until then, we’ll have to make do with partially automated queer social liberalism.'