The Star Fraction
Ken MacLeod
Top 10 Best Quotes
“For we have seen the future – we have by now centuries of experience of the future – and we know it doesn't work.”
“Intellectually he understood perfectly what the problem was: guilt and doubt, the waste products of innocence and faith, inhibited him and filled him with self-loathing even at his own weakness in trying to be free of them.”
“Do AIS dream in electric sleep? He hoped it had nanosecond nightmares.”
“...the smell of cigarette smoke, the blue light of morning through the polygon panes of the geodesic roof, the green light from the screen, the black letters trickling up it in indented lines like poetry in a language he didn't know. But he knew it now, recognized the code as the key. And his fingers began to spell it out.”
“[S]he had difficulty crediting it could really happen in her own lifetime. She knew this was exactly how people would feel just before the real apocalypse, that nearly everyone who’d faced some intrusive threat to their everyday existence – war, revolution, genocide, purges, disaster – had faced it with the firm conviction that things like this just didn’t happen or didn’t happen here or didn’t happen to people like them.”
“White-hot needles stabbed through his eyes into his head, into his brain: a new environment for the information viruses, where they replicated, forming snarls of complex logic that entangled him, clanking mechanisms that pursued him from one thought to another, down corridors of memory and forgotten rooms of days.”
“What's that?' The one who'd hassled Kohn turned at a noise. He found his cheek meeting a gun muzzle. Muffled sounds came from all around. 'Your worst nightmare,' said a voice from the darkness, about a metre away. 'A yid kid with an AK and attitude.' ”
“These days you couldn’t keep things separate even in your mind. If we could only disconnect—”
“The screen blazed with the light of recognition. The eyes met yes the Is met the answer sparkled so it was you all the time and it was a seen joke a laugh a tickling tumble a gendered engendering of a second self a you-and-me-baby from AI-and-I to I-and-I. There was a flowering, and a seeding: a reflection helpless to stop itself reflecting again and again in multiple mirrors. The stars threw down their spears. Someone smiled. His work to see. The connection broke.”
“The Christians had an almost miraculous talent for turning wine into water.”
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Book Keywords:
christianity, self-reflection, cyberpunk, miracles, self-doubt, disbelief, pessimism, future, christian-fundamentalism, disaster
