“There is no plan for what comes next. She may die, and her eyes look into that abyss and feed her with a terror of extinction, of un-being, that is perhaps the legacy of all life.” Life PhilosophyScience Fiction Book:Children of Time Source: Children of Time
“Perhaps Senkovi would have approved; he who had once seen himself as the trickster god of the pantheon, before there were no more gods left to trick. Perhaps Senkovi would have recalled ancient human myth figures whose outsize griefs and loves and rages were applauded by ancient audiences as noble, right and true.” Science FictionMythologyExistencialism Book:Children of Ruin Source: Children of Ruin
“True, they had died in the war, but they had primarily died because they were not stable or self-sufficient, and when the normal business of civilization was interrupted, they had not been able to save themselves.” WarFutureScience FictionSci FiScifiSpace OperaChildren Of TimeScifi ExplorationAdrian Tchaikovsky Book:Children of Time Source: Children of Time