kim stanley robinson

January 13, 2021 by achrilock

“Sorry, friends. This is the real wolf.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘Red Mars’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/01/13/6632/

December 28, 2020 by achrilock

“The phrase formed in his mind and pushed at his lips. Wallpaper in hell. Wallpaper in hell.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘Red Mars’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/12/28/6071/

December 21, 2020 by achrilock

“Meanwhile the rationing, the hunger, the struggle against disease.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘Aurora’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/12/21/5872/

December 17, 2020 by achrilock

“The Party makes the law, but then it shouldn’t be above it. Party members shouldn’t be above the law, that’s the important point. The people have to be able to trust the Party.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘Red Moon’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/12/17/5768/

December 15, 2020 by achrilock

“Because there are very few ideas uptown. And even the great thinkers can’t learn it all; they are ignorant too, they bail on the details of the emergent situation, unknowable in any case, and after that they write or talk impressionistically.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘New York 2140’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/12/15/5723/

December 11, 2020 by achrilock

“Shikata ga nai.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘Red Mars’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/12/11/5617/

November 30, 2020 by achrilock

“Under the star that grew us all
We sit and watch our world.
Long lives, distant planets;
All the years knocked down like sticks;
Still that sure feeling
You know where home is.
Even from the moon
You can see it.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘Red Moon’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/11/30/5403/

November 27, 2020 by achrilock

“A new bubble, you might say, and you would be right. But people are blind to a bubble they’re inside, they can’t see it. And that is very cool if you happen to have an angle of vision that allows you to see it. Scary, sure, but cool, because you can hedge by way of that knowledge. You can, in short, short it. You can, as I had found out by doing it, invent a bubblistic investment possibility more or less by accident, then sell it to people and watch it go long, knowing all the while that it is turning into a bubble, and all the while you can short it in preparation for the time that bubble pops.
Spoofing? No. Ponzi scheme? Not at all! Just finance. Legal as hell.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘New York 2140’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/11/27/5338/

November 22, 2020 by achrilock

“Perhaps the Party will have to dismiss the people and elect another one.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘Red Moon’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/11/22/5237/

November 16, 2020 by achrilock

“Every moment is a wicked struggle of political forces, so even as the intertidal emerges from the surf like Venus, capitalism will be flattening itself like the octopus it biomimics, sliding between the glass walls of law that try to keep it contained, and no one should be surprised to find it can squeeze itself to the width of its beak, the only part of it that it can’t squish flatter, the hard part that tears at our flesh when it is free to do so. No, the glass walls of justice will have to be placed together closer than the width of an octopus’s beak–now there’s a fortune cookie for you! And even then the octopus may think of some new ways to bite the world.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘New York 2140’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/11/16/5158/

November 14, 2020 by achrilock

“‘Just aesthetics? Aesthetics is very practical!’”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘Red Moon’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/11/14/5096/

October 13, 2020 by achrilock

“Now at that time I was a lawyer, and I valued my solitude. For a whole week I didn’t have to talk, and I liked that. Even though I owned a car I had hitchhiked in my time, and I had known the hitchhiker’s despair, made of a whole bunch of little disappointments in humanity, slowly adding up. And it was about to rain, too.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘The Wild Shore’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/10/13/4209/