Quotes About Spacer

I am a spacer. It is what and who I am. It is my cause and my life. I am not an enthusiast, a fan, or supporter. It is what I exist to do here on Earth. And there are many of us; some, like Elon Musk, are very high profile.

We of Solaria alone learned how life was to be lived. We did not herd and flock like animals, as they did on Earth, as they did on other worlds, as they did even on the other Spacer worlds. We lived each alone, with robots to help us, viewing each other electronically as often as we wished, but coming within natural sight of one another only rarely.

the pole's center was a gleaming lump about the size of a person's head, which any Spacer would recognize as a small nickel-iron asteroid, as common in space as dead leaves were on the reforested surface. But rare down here, even after the Hard Rain.

Zawadzi? o ni? wzrokiem przelotnie. Ziewn??. Ach, to ju? by?o niewiarygodne! Ta maskarada! Przed kim? Po co? Ta ostro?no??... jakby nie pozwala? osobie swojej wzi?? pe?nego udzia?u w tym, co robi?... ale wida? by?o ?e ca?e kr??enie to do niej zmierza, do niej! O... a teraz oddala si? w stron? domu, ale nie, na pole wyszed? daleko, daleko, przystaj?c, rozpatruj?c, niby ?e to spacer...

me something!" Scrambling to his feet in the darkness, Commander Korsin craned his neck to find the hologram. "Thrusters, attitude control—I'll take parking jets!" A starship is a weapon, but it's the crew that makes it deadly. An old spacer's line: trite, but weighty enough to lend a little authority. Korsin had used it himself on occasion. But not today. His ship was being deadly all on its own—and his crew was just along for the ride.