kim stanley robinson

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/

September 1, 2020 by achrilock

“We happy few. Hope, yes, of course there is hope... But hope needs food. Helpful as hopeful stories might be, you can’t eat stories.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘Aurora’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/09/01/3043/

August 31, 2020 by achrilock

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https://achrilock.com/2020/08/31/3026/

August 27, 2020 by achrilock

“Possibly this formulation itself is the deep diagnostic of all human cognition—the tell, as they say, meaning the thing that tells, the giveaway. In the infinite black space of ignorance, it is as if stands as the basic operation of cognition, the mark perhaps of consciousness itself.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘Aurora’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/08/27/2876/

August 21, 2020 by achrilock

“After that the river tore the berm open a couple hundred yards wide. All the buildings near the breach went down. Water is strong.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘New York 2140’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/08/21/2671/

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/