Peter Watts

Maelstrom

  • Arsen Avchikhanovhas quoted3 years ago
    Almost experimentally, he crossed into the living room and depolarized the tanglethreads. They slipped to the floor like overcooked pasta.

    For good measure, he pulled a lightstick from his pocket and struck it; light flared in the gutted room. Desjardins blinked over shrinking pupils and gingerly explored the bruise on his cheek.
  • Arsen Avchikhanovhas quoted3 years ago
    "They already know, big man. They were the ones who patched me through in the first place. I gave them the rest of the night off."
  • Arsen Avchikhanovhas quoted3 years ago
    "Sort of a chaser for Guilt Trip. Makes things easier to live with."

    "Absolution," she whispered.
  • Arsen Avchikhanovhas quoted3 years ago
    I was not gonna let those stumpfucks win.
  • Arsen Avchikhanovhas quoted3 years ago
    He found her in the undarkness of her old bedroom.
  • Arsen Avchikhanovhas quoted3 years ago
    The front hall receded in front of her, barren and unfurnished; its walls glistened strangely, as if freshly lacquered.
  • Arsen Avchikhanovhas quoted3 years ago
    She walked north to Queen and turned east, her feet following their own innate path beneath the dim streetlights. No one and nothing accosted her. Eastbourne Manor continued to rot undemolished, although someone had swept away the cardboard prefabs in the past twenty years.
  • Arsen Avchikhanovhas quoted3 years ago
    That whole nanotech thing was such a debacle…"
  • Arsen Avchikhanovhas quoted3 years ago
    Set up breach after breach, sealing each with extreme and unfettered prejudice.
  • Arsen Avchikhanovhas quoted3 years ago
    Time's the catch, of course. Genes are slow: a thousand generations to learn some optimal-foraging trick that a real brain could pick up in five minutes.
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