Quotes from Peter F. Hamilton

Justine watched two azure moons traverse the sparkling smear of Wall stars. They were in very strange orbits. And moving impossibly fast – actually accelerating. 'Oh my God,' she gasped. The Raiel's planet-sized DF machines were flying into new positions. 'The Raiel are getting ready for the last fight,' Ehasz said numbly. 'If they lose, that monster will consume the whole galaxy.

Out of twinkling stardust all came, into dark matter all will fall. Death mocks us as we laugh defiance at entropy, yet ignorance birthed mortals sail forth upon time's cruel sea.

code could be written to solve the problems. Code could do anything. Code could save the world.

Time travel is pure bullshit, impossible; nobody can defeat causality or entropy.

quantum reality, and finding itself emerging in a continuum it had no prior conception of: an energistic vacuum

I've only been out a few days. I'd forgotten how fucking useless meat bodies are. There's barely enough neurones to run a walking routine, let alone something complicated like tying your shoelaces up. I've had to run an expanded mentality in the habitat's RI systems just to keep thinking properly; and that hardware isn't exactly young and frisky any more.

Prime Minister Adolphus sat at a broad desk at the far end, surrounded by a cluttered nest of bookcases and cheap metal filing cabinets.

Economics is dead, and true equality will rise out of the ashes. We've turned our back on materialism, rejected it completely. It has no purpose anymore. Now we can live as we please, develop our minds not our finances.

I can trace her bloodline right back to Arabians on Earth from the mid-nineteenth century. She's as pure as they come. Not an artificial sequence in her whole genome;

I can talk with HR in the morning.' 'HR?' 'Human Resources.' 'In Brussels that kind of department is referred to as the Office for Personkind Enablement. Resources sounds like something you dig out of the ground. It's offensive to so many people given the historical rare earth mineral conflicts.

Then Lucius would have led a three-man detainment group in. Joaquin would have been contained and taken back to the Nightingale Avenue office.

I think our father Demitri is smiling upon this launch.

The temperature fell. The rain quickened, thinning the clouds, clearing the sky. Evolution began once more.

Code could do anything. Code could save the world.

A huge quantity of sensor log files were stored in the RI array, almost all of them containing negative information.

Doesn't it have any safety systems?" she yelled at Ranto as she curved around again. He shrugged. "Drive safe," he suggested.

If I can get all hot under the collar about the purity of a hat, just think what I'm like when human heritage is threatened with extinction.

Calabi-Yau manifold

She had to strike the first retaliatory blow in a war nobody else knew they'd been losing all this time. And that meant she had to kill her guardian angel.

Vance closed the link and stamped off to biolab-1, too furious to say anything more. He didn't even ask the Lord for wisdom and guidance, which was remiss of him, but the Lord would understand the frailty of human reaction in the face of such outrageous provocation.

But all we have now is rule by rich people, the ones who keep ninety percent of the world in relative poverty so their unbalanced market can continue paying for a lifestyle of total excess.

The possibility was rejected because what we have learned of you so far indicates that your race will come through this time successfully. Edenists especially have the social maturity to face that which follows.

She returned her attention to the tall captain. She was annoyed at the way his gaze seemed to be fastened on her breasts.

The Micklethwaite family who owned and ran Cuckoo Farm were huddled in a group, sleepy and bewildered in thick coats thrown on over their pajamas. Three kids, aged between seven and twelve, were clinging to their parents. An old woman, whom Sid took to be the grandmother, was starting to argue with an agent, her croaky voice rising. She was claiming a lot of rights, as well as being insulting about Nazis and corrupt government officials.