Quotes from Peter F. Hamilton

Taxis are useful in this town, aren't they?" Clayton mused. "So perfectly anonymous. And they all look the same.

We can look at the whole concept of God and spirituality from a vantage point built on logic and physics. Under such an intensive scientific scrutiny, religion always fails. Our knowledge of quantum cosmology is now sufficiently advanced to eliminate the notion of God altogether. The universe is an entirely natural phenomenon, if extraordinarily complex. It was not created by an external act of will.

Our society is mature. Change is instability. That is why every institution we have resists change. To maintain the status quo is our sole objective in life.

rationalize that as something else

How they hell does it do that?

That's a huge gamble." "We're long past the time for careful certainty.

Laura Brandt knew all about coming out of a suspension chamber.

weapons science was always kept very close to the government's chest, receiving the most funds and the least publicity.

Ian kept his brain in his dick

It's not a god he worships, it's the devil.

A large part of evolution is interaction. Isolation is not evolution; it is stagnation.

he said that for wickedness to succeed all it takes is for decent people to do nothing.

All it's done is create a separate culture—which, incidentally, never stops whining on about its superiority. That always ends well." "Then it is not unusual for such a culture to be subject to attack from ideological rivals.

Humans can do anything if they have enough determination. And knowledge. Knowledge is the key to everything.

Three hundred and twenty-eight wormholes were opened in unison. They were small, all of them measuring a metre and a half wide. Just enough for a ten-megatonne warhead to pass through. The wormholes closed.

National and regional governments were committing vast resources into combating the biosphere breakdown. Social welfare, infrastructure administration, health care, and security — the fields government used to devote its efforts to — were all slowly being starved of tax money and sold off to private industry. It

Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon. Classic, but not as good as Wish You Were Here.

Their electronics are still back in the Stone Age.

Kelly was starting to have serious second thoughts about the whole assignment. Like all war correspondents, she supposed. Being on the ground was very different to sitting in the office anticipating being on the ground. Especially with the appearance of that red cloud.

They would have thought me mad, even Kristabel. Flying carriages. People who live forever. Hundreds of inhabited worlds. Machine servants instead of genistars. Cities where Makkathran would be naught but a small district. A civilization where justice was available to all. Aliens. More stars in the sky than it is possible to count. No, such marvels of my fevered imagination were best kept inside my skull.

The ubiquitous semi-sentient utility routine running in her macrocellular clusters responded immediately by unfolding a basic array of mental icons, slender lines of blue fairy light that superimposed themselves within her wobbly vision. She frowned. If she was reading their efficiency modes correctly, her biononics had

Everybody in the GE used secondaries. It was part of the culture now; socially acceptable. There had been many attempts by the Brussels parliament to legislate against it, and the Tax Bureau certainly did its best. But of course, if a method had been found to clear up people's finances and put them on a hundred per cent legitimate, transparent basis, it would have worked for everyone, politicians and tax officials included.

Now he was sitting in the bridge, about to embark on the voyage that would put him on the same list as Columbus

Meteorites fell through the night sky like a gentle sleet of icefire