Quotes from Peter F. Hamilton

several tech-types; heavily idealistic about total access they all sailed close to anarchistic beliefs, believing all information should be free.

pharmacopoeia of drugs, hormones, and proscribed viral vectors.

Secrecy is like oxygen to politicians and defense forces; there's always got to be some of it to keep them going.

The Olyix understand. You are new to sentience. Your behavior is still affected by your animal origin. You seek to advance yourselves at the expense of others." "As I said: a minority.

Kysandra turned to the third victim. "Prime Minister?" she said in surprise. "No, I stole his body. Don't worry about this; everything is backed up. I'll re-life later. Just get us back…Oh, bollocks, here we go again." His chest juddered as blood gushed out of his mouth; then his body went limp.

purpose; parents being tolerant or exasperated

They're not. It's a multifaith gathering," Alik said. "Praying away the aliens.

there anyone up there?" "No," Gelai said. "Are you sure?" "Yes." Of all the facets of possession, the perception ability fascinated Alkad the most. She'd only just started considering the mechanism of possession. The whole concept would ultimately mean quantum cosmology having to be completely restructured again. So far, she'd made very little theoretical progress.

Who wants to wind up living in a theocracy?

I'm impressed. That is one big mother of a tax office.' 'They say that the Captain has an agreement with the Skylords, that if you haven't settled your taxes when you seek Guidance, the Skylords will take you to Uracus instead of Giu.'" )

People will look at you, what you're doing, rewriting the regiment rule book, and they'll want to do the same for themselves. That's when you'll start to run into resistance. That's where the politics begins. And that's the dirtiest fight there is.

I was never a dictator, I just had a huge amount of political clout.

Astronomy post 2050 had effectively ceased to be a pure science.

perhaps an uprising of suicidal ultragreens saving the Gaia Goddess Earth from the human race by genociding everyone

You couldn't geneer that quality, it was a demonstration that the incest taboo was finally starting to lose force among Downtown residents.

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 backward to help them.

The greenhouse effect never did achieve the worst-case scenarios that the more evangelical environmentalists claimed it would.

would be dependent on who was speaking with whom, whose ideologies clashed, whose religions denounced the other. The whole point of ethnic streaming colonies, as Earth had painfully discovered centuries ago during the Great Dispersal, was that foreign cultures can live harmoniously with each other providing they didn't have to live jammed together on the same planet.

You didn't get to his level in Connexion Security without being competent.

He could have walked in through the main gate and they'd never know. Usually. And that was the one thing that Adam had lectured him about ceaselessly. There was no usual.

You know what I think? Edenists don't get caught in the beyond because you're cool enough under pressure to figure your way out. Well, me too, pal. Laton said there was a way out. I believe him. The Kiint found it. Just knowing that it's possible is my ticket to exit.

For a moment he regretted not using the original configuration, a wormhole wide enough to swallow a gas giant. This was only a kilometer across. But it did extend for twenty-eight thousand light-years. It works. I was right. I was right about everything. The Anomine, the Raiel. Everything. "I win," he said softly, then shouted it. "I fucking win! And the universe knows it.

Their chanting and singing had been persistent and inventive. He'd never known there were so many songs about freedom, and what had happened to Slvasta's balls.

You are so much smarter than me, aren't you?" "No. I just think things through quicker, that's all." "If that's not a definition of smart, I don't know what is.