Quotes from Peter F. Hamilton

I have come to realize that life is the most precious thing. It matters not where you are, or who you are. All that matters is how that life is lived; and lived it should be, to the full.

knowledge is a true power in any society

Christ, chief, what do they do to these people? Are we working for psychopaths

Politicians see conspiracies everywhere

No human has ever died.

They used a bazooka to shoot the Warrior Angel, it was spectacular ineffective.

It remained a source of mild shame that he'd never quite realized just how knowledgeable his wife was in her field.

Does my willingness to do my duty make the human race a bunch of dangerous killers?

On Earth everybody is a foreigner to their neighbour. It's because we're all squashed up so tight. Privacy is a cherished commodity. In public places, people don't chat to strangers, they avoid eye contact. It's because that's the way they want to be treated. I'm

Aunt Terannia stuck her head up through the hole. "Only me," she said briskly. Then blinked. "What is that on your arm?" "E-beam pulsor," Essie said matter-of-factly. "Far Away's favored Saturday-night special.

when the fifty selected pool reporters were finally allowed in on the first morning they all remarked to their audiences how solemn and dignified the chamber was.

Greg had flown them on fifteen missions in Turkey

Hurting them financially weakens them, and reduces their power over the workers they exploit.

They fucked right there on the kitchen table. It was anger sex, hot and turbulent, both trying to climax first, to win.

The holm, where her soul originated from, occupying the non-realm outside spacetime; both separate but still existing within the overall cosmos. Together, the two intersected, a contact which created the miracle that was the mind, animating flesh, delivering purpose to otherwise insensate clusters of mere organic chemistry.

My sympathies.' 'Don't waste your breath. You can't help the terminally stupid. If people hate government so much they don't listen to official advice, they can't expect government to bend over backwards to help them.

Everybody vanishes apart from us. Why? What's different about us three?

Acceptance of truth is fundamental to our ethos. To determine truth we must first listen to all opinion.

Massive starship building programme initiated in O'Neill Halo. Govcentral begins large-scale enforced outshipment of surplus population, rising to 2 million a week in 2160: Great Dispersal.

Okay, people," Kiera announced, with a grossly stressed American twang. "This is a stickup. Don't nobody move, and shove your valuables in this here sack.

New Kong's industrial facilities from the O'Neill Halo to an asteroid orbiting Kulu. He claims independence for the Kulu star system, founds Christian-only colony

and they're all analogue signals, which is even stranger.

Science your way out of this.

Slvasta's revolution destroyed his dictatorship