kim stanley robinson

July 25, 2021 by achrilock

“So there was delusion and pretentiousness and aspiration and lack of focus there that I didn’t like to see.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘New York 2140’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/07/25/11583/

July 9, 2021 by achrilock

“Has human civilization in some sense slowed, or stalled, in its gaining of power in the physical world? Are they beginning to feel the effects of their neglected so-called externalities, their long-term destruction of their own home biosphere? Their fouling of their only nest?”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘Aurora’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/07/09/11142/

July 9, 2021 by achrilock

“Cross the river by feeling the stones.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘Red Moon’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/07/09/11133/

July 2, 2021 by achrilock

“‘Has anyone been hurt or killed?’
‘Not on purpose.’
‘Has anyone been terrorized?’
‘You mean scared away from burning carbon?’
‘Yes.’
‘I think it might be good if that had happened, don’t you?’”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘The Ministry for the Future’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/07/02/10893/

June 28, 2021 by achrilock

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https://achrilock.com/2021/06/28/10808/

June 17, 2021 by achrilock

“He said, They’ve got life rafts, right?
We don’t know, we said. Inflatables, you mean?
Yeah.
I guess so.
So, they’ll either get those inflated and over the side or they won’t. If they don’t, they’ll get what’s coming to them.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘The Ministry for the Future’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/06/17/10533/

June 14, 2021 by achrilock

“People sometimes say no one saw it coming, but no, wrong: they did.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘New York 2140’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/06/14/10431/

June 6, 2021 by achrilock

“Acute students of finance will have observed that money, abstract concept though it is, behaves as if it had mass. Economic laws imitate physical laws. Everyone’s collection of money is a planetary body, in other words, exerting influence on everyone else’s. Thus the more money you have the stronger its gravity is, and the easier it is to attract more.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘Icehenge’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/06/06/10209/

May 28, 2021 by achrilock

“What we feel most, we remember best.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘Icehenge’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/05/28/9984/

May 23, 2021 by achrilock

“We are stuck in the knife-edged present, it extends everywhere—except during the hallucinatory moment of involuntary memory, when images impact like the real.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘Icehenge’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/05/23/9832/

May 21, 2021 by achrilock

“When human witness becomes weak evidence we’re in bad trouble.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘Icehenge’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/05/21/9780/

May 6, 2021 by achrilock

“The city is gliding on its tracks across the bottom of a giant dimple between Hesiod and Kurasawa, and a flood of sunlight will soon pour far to the west.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘2312’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/05/06/9384/

April 28, 2021 by achrilock

“I must admit, I sometimes shout at people if they deny that. I damn them to hell. Which is a place we in India have already seen.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘The Ministry for the Future’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/04/28/9205/