kim stanley robinson

August 8, 2020 by achrilock

“Looking at it in the apocalypse of the Mercurial dawn, it’s impossible to believe it’s not alive. It roars in your ears, it speaks to you.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘2312’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/08/08/2241/

August 7, 2020 by achrilock

“Bears and bears and bears, oh my!”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘New York 2140’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/08/07/2208/

August 6, 2020 by achrilock

“Psychology is a science in which the observer becomes intimately involved with the subject of observation.
That’s one of the reasons I don’t think it’s a science.
It is certainly a science. One of its tenets is, if you want to know more, care more. Every astronomer loves the stars. Otherwise why study them so?”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘Green Mars’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/08/06/2178/

July 13, 2020 by achrilock

“Each wave is a different size, and meets a different resistance, and as a result there is an infinite variety of rippling, breaking, chopping, gliding . . . The pattern is never once the same. Do you see what I mean?”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘The Wild Shore’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/07/13/1507/

July 6, 2020 by achrilock

“I heard a rasp from its chest—if it was a purr, it was to a cat’s purr as thunder is to a doorslam.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘The Wild Shore’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/07/06/1326/

June 29, 2020 by achrilock

“It’s a blessing to know something for sure, Henry. Surprisingly few things you can say that about. Knowledge is like quicksilver.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘The Wild Shore’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/06/29/1072/

June 28, 2020 by achrilock

“You may be on the other side of a great divide, your life indefinitely long and headed for the stars. Not so we the living, thrashing around in our little solar system like bacteria filling a new rain puddle. This puddle is all we’ve got.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘2312’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/06/28/1062/

June 27, 2020 by achrilock

“texts are written for people to read later. They are a kind of time capsule, a speaking to one’s descendants. Reading this text, you see back to an older time, when the tumult and disorder may be scarcely believable to you.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘2312’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/06/27/1023/

June 16, 2020 by achrilock

“This was called adaptation, and it was a popular philosophical position among certain cloud citizens and libertarians and academics in various disciplines.... It made them cool, it often got them tenure from like-minded intellectuals, and it was a very expedient cynicism all around, as one could behave as if things were still fun and exciting and the new normal.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘New York 2140’

https://achrilock.com/2020/06/16/719/

June 13, 2020 by achrilock

“to form a sentence is to collapse many superposed wave functions to a single thought universe. Multiplying the lost universes word by word, we can say that each sentence extinguishes 10n universes, where n is the number of words in the sentence. Each thought condenses trillions of potential thoughts. Thus we get verbal overshadowing, where the language we use structures the reality we inhabit. Maybe this is a blessing. Maybe this is why we need to keep making sentences”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘2312’

https://achrilock.com/2020/06/13/650/

June 5, 2020 by achrilock

“... and with a veneer of democracy and consumer goods covering the junta.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘Red Mars’

https://achrilock.com/2020/06/05/470/

May 30, 2020 by achrilock

“A million people and no law, no law but corporate law. The bottom line. Minimize expenses, maximize profits. Run smoothly on ball bearings.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘Red Mars’

https://achrilock.com/2020/05/30/274/

May 22, 2020 by achrilock

“Maybe to say that someone was ‘like this’ or ‘like that’ was just an attempt to stick a memory to a board where you organized memories, like butterflies in a lepidopterist’s collection. Not really the generalization it seemed, but just a stab at understanding.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘2312’

https://achrilock.com/2020/05/22/87/