They also, [the drone] said, refuse to acknowledge machine sentience fully; they exploit proto-conscious computers and claim only human subjective experience has any intrinsic value — carbon fascists.
There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.
She'd asked him what it was like to be in there, doing nothing but then being woken up to speak to somebody you couldn't see. He'd said that it was like being woken from a deep and satisfying sleep, t...
Patience can be a means of letting matters mature to a proper state for action, not just a way of letting time slip away.
Jase, which deep down was a hopeless romantic, thought her laughter sounded like the tinkling of mountain streams,
Holse wasn’t about to get involved in any theological arguments. He looked serious and nodded, hoping this would do.
Don’t you think it’s hilarious when people think they’re being terribly clever? I know I do. Just as well some of us genuinely fucking are or we’d be in a hell of a fucking state.
All very melodramatic. Your feud may inspire a not terribly good screen presentation at some point in the future, hopefully distant. I look forward to missing it.
You needed ear defenders, and the swirling slipstream caused total havoc to any hairstyle worth the name.
There came a point when if a conspiracy was that powerful and subtle it became pointless to worry about it.
Individual is obsolete. That’s why life is so comfortable for us all. We don’t matter, so we’re safe. No one person can have any real effect anymore.
Faith is belief without reason; we operate on reason and nothing but. I have zero faith in my crew, just absolute confidence.
Yet my father died, I was forced to the throne, and although I knew I was not ready, I coped. I learned. I became a King by having to behave as one, not simply because I was my father’s son and had be...
There is a saying that some foolish people believe: What does not kill you makes you stronger. I know for a fact, having seen the evidence - indeed, often enough having been the cause of it - that wha...
The swirling mist lay in the bottom of such great bowls like a broth of dreams.
The old male drew himself up as though getting ready to go. I hate romantics, Quilan. They do not really know themselves, but what is worse they do not really want to know themselves—or, ultimately, a...
The drone told him one in ten of the people he passed on the street would be treated for mental illness at some point in their lives. The figure was higher for males than for apices, and higher for fe...
The black bird Gravious made to settle on her shoulder; she shooed it off and it landed flapping uproariously on the edge of the opened trap door. ‘My tree!’ it screamed, hopping from leg to leg. ‘My...
That conscious cooperation was more efficient than feral competition?
Sometimes heroics revolted him; they seemed like an insult to the soldier who weighed the risks of the situation and made calm, cunning decisions based on experience and imagination, the sort of unsho...