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“Welcome to politics, Doctor. We don’t get to pick our allies. The best we can hope for is that we don’t despise them quite as much as our enemies.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Terminal World

Zdroj: Terminal World (2010), Chapter 22 (p. 417)

“Maybe if you weren’t busy throwing rocks at each other, you could spend a little time on the other niceties of life, such as cooperation and mutual advancement.”

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Alastair Reynolds

Zdroj: Short fiction, The Iron Tactician (2016), p. 630

“You’ve been good to me, Inigo. But I really am like the weather. You can admire me, even love me, in your way, but I can’t love you back. To me you’re like a photograph. I can see right through you, examine you from all angles. You amuse me. But you don’t have enough depth ever to fascinate me.”

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Weather (p. 159)
Short fiction, Galactic North (2006)

“I don’t like this at all,” Hegazi said.
“Believe me,” Sylveste said, “you’re about to like it a lot less.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Revelation Space

Zdroj: Revelation Space (2000), Chapter 18 (p. 370).

““You can hardly blame them.”
“Assuming stupidity is an inherited trait, then no, I can’t.””

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Revelation Space

Zdroj: Revelation Space (2000), Chapter 3 (p. 67).

““I gather you were all too busy killing each other.”
“That’s a fairly reductive summary of our history, but I don’t suppose it’s too far from the truth.””

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Chasm City

Zdroj: Chasm City (2001), Chapter 21 (p. 359).

““Only trying to make conversation, friend.”
“Don’t bother—it’s an overrated activity at the best of times.””

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A Spy in Europa (p. 104)
Short fiction, Galactic North (2006)

“The central defect of the human mind,” Custine said, “is its unfortunate habit of seeing patterns where none exist. Of course, that is also its chief asset.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Century Rain

“But sometimes a very dangerous one.”
Zdroj: Century Rain (2004), Chapter 12 (p. 178)

““Haven’t you ever heard of morale-building?” Khouri had asked.
“Heard of it,” Volyova said. “Don’t happen to agree with it. Would you rather be happy and dead, or scared and alive?””

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Revelation Space

Zdroj: Revelation Space (2000), Chapter 19 (p. 381).

““Is there anyone in Chasm City she hasn’t deceived?”
“Possibly, somewhere, but only as an extreme theoretical possibility.””

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Chasm City

Zdroj: Chasm City (2001), Chapter 29 (p. 481).

“Khouri did not need to be told that Hades was a neutron star, any more than she needed to be told that there was no such thing as a safe close encounter with one. You either kept away or you died; those were the rules, and there was no force in the universe capable of negating them. Gravity ruled, and gravity did not take into account circumstances, or the unfairness of things, or listen to eleventh-hour petitions before reluctantly repealing its laws. Gravity crushed, and near the surface of a neutron star gravity crushed absolutely, until diamond flowed like water; until a mountain collapsed into a millionth of its height.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Revelation Space

Zdroj: Revelation Space (2000), Chapter 37 (p. 554).

“Memo to himself: the one way to make people panic was to warn them not to.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Absolution Gap

Zdroj: Absolution Gap (2003), Chapter 4 (p. 56)

“The battle sunk towards the horizon. Presently it would be gone, leaving a sky unsullied by human affairs.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Redemption Ark

Zdroj: Redemption Ark (2002), Chapter 8 (p. 130)

“The virus was not helping. He had hoped that it would, but the feelings it brought were too superficial. When he most needed their succour he could feel them for the paper-thin façades they were. Just because the virus was tickling the parts of his brain that produced feelings of religious experience didn’t mean he was able to turn off the other parts of his mind that recognised these feelings as having been induced artificially. He truly felt himself to be in the presence of something sacred, but he also knew, with total clarity, that this was due to neuroanatomy. Nothing was really with him: the organ music, the stained-glass windows in the sky, the sense of proximity to something huge and timeless and infinitely compassionate were all explicable in terms of neural wiring, firing potentials, synaptic gaps.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Absolution Gap

Zdroj: Absolution Gap (2003), Chapter 9 (p. 136)

“For someone admitting guilt she sounded remarkably void of repentance.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Revelation Space

Zdroj: Revelation Space (2000), Chapter 35 (p. 533).

““Is that as bad as it sounds?” Floyd asked.
“No,” Auger said. “It’s worse. A lot worse.””

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Century Rain

Zdroj: Century Rain (2004), Chapter 30 (p. 466)

“It was one of the oldest tricks of mob-management: give them a hate figure.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Redemption Ark

Zdroj: Redemption Ark (2002), Chapter 4 (p. 66)

“He’s not really a religious man, but he knows which side his bread’s buttered on. The churches pay his salary, so he doesn’t want anyone rocking the boat with unorthodox rumours.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Absolution Gap

Zdroj: Absolution Gap (2003), Chapter 28 (p. 441)

“It was bad, but it was some other slightly less piquant flavour of bad.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Century Rain

Zdroj: Century Rain (2004), Chapter 37 (p. 573)

“I’m just saying that right now we could all use a degree of perspective. Because this is not the end of the world.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha The Prefect

Zdroj: The Prefect (2007), Chapter 13 (p. 191)

“Afterwards, when Clavain tried to imaging how he might describe it, he found that words were never going to be adequate for the task. And that was no surprise: evolution had shaped language to convey many concepts, but going from a single to a networked topology of self was not amongst them.”

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The Great Wall of Mars (p. 37)
Short fiction, Galactic North (2006)

““How are the internal complications, anyway? Aren’t the other branches of government getting a little suspicious about all these machinations?”
“Let’s just say that one or two discreet assassinations may still have to be performed,” Khouri said.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Redemption Ark

Zdroj: Redemption Ark (2002), Chapter 27 (p. 490)

“Auger could not help marvelling at the experience of being inside the ALS sphere and seeing her world as it should have been. This was an earth that had never known nuclear war, or runaway climatic catastrophe, or smart weather, or a Nanocaust. The sight of it made her want to weep. No image had ever come close to the heartbreaking beauty of this small blue world, a beauty all the more acute now that she knew how exquisitely fragile it was. It was the beauty of a butterfly’s wing.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Century Rain

Zdroj: Century Rain (2004), Chapter 40 (pp. 596-597)

“The church-sponsored archaeologists were the only ones who had any kind of overview of the entire haul of relics, and they were under intense pressure to ignore any evidence that conflicted with Quaicheist scripture. That was why Rashmika wrote them so many letters, and why their infrequent replies were always so evasive. She wanted an argument; she wanted to question the entire accepted view of the scuttlers. They wanted her to go away.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Absolution Gap

Zdroj: Absolution Gap (2003), Chapter 11 (p. 166)

““Are you sharpness personified?”
Khouri poured herself a few final sips of coffee and then left the rest of it on the stove for when she got back. Coffee was her only vice, one acquired in her soldiering days on the Edge. The trick was to reach a knife-edge of alertness, but not be so buzzing that she could not point the weapon without shaking.
“I think I’ve reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level, if that’s what you mean.””

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Revelation Space

Zdroj: Revelation Space (2000), Chapter 2 (p. 27).

““Don’t you agree with me?”
“On some distant theoretical level, just possibly.””

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Chasm City

Zdroj: Chasm City (2001), Chapter 12 (p. 177).

“Don’t tell me you aren’t the slightest bit curious, Norquinco.”
“I hope you burn in hell, Sky Haussmann.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Chasm City

“I’ll take that as a yes.”

Chapter 35 (p. 562).
Chasm City (2001)

“Anxiety is a useful tool: it forces us to make plans. But when too much anxiety freezes us into indecision, it needs checking.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Century Rain

Zdroj: Century Rain (2004), Chapter 33 (p. 506)

““You look older, son.”
“Yes, well, some of us have to get on with the business of being alive in the entropic universe.””

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Revelation Space

Zdroj: Revelation Space (2000), Chapter 16 (p. 332).

“And even if what they showed you is true, that doesn’t begin to make it right. The cause might be just, Felka, but history’s littered with atrocities committed in the name of righteousness.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Redemption Ark

Zdroj: Redemption Ark (2002), Chapter 38 (p. 662)

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