Justina Robson

"So she might die here—well, she could have died anywhere, so who cared where? That didn’t interest her. Life and mystery, that interested her. Perhaps she would have been keener on death and its proce…"

"The gun is a consequence of our minds. If we were in love with peace, and had no will to destroy each other, there would be no gun."

"Life did what it did, purposelessly, and only humans strove to impose a meaning where no meaning was needed. She viewed herself as random flotsam upon the face of the deep. Without a religious foundat…"

"I love to live vicariously, in a book or a holo, but I think I can stand one dose of reality before it’s my time."

"You could try and breed territoriality out of the bone, but like a bad fairy it popped up again and again in all sorts of guises and from all kinds of DNA. As long as there was plenty, then everyone w…"

"“So, you’re saying you have no idea what this stuff is.” At last, something that sounded plausible."

"It is the rare person who can stand aside and observe that our minds and identities are largely constructs of our social order, that we are abstract and arbitrary collections of ideas that resemble du…"

"Gritter thought it was about time the complacent louts at the top of the heap got to have a genuine red-hot poker up the ass."