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“Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere.”

Quote by Robert Charles Wilson

Book:Spin

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In this novel, the protagonist navigates complex personal and societal changes, prompting readers to reflect on the nature of self and the world around them. more

Author

Robert Charles Wilson

Robert Charles Wilson is a Canadian science fiction author born on December 15, 1953. His works are known for their profound philosophical insights and complex narrative structures, with notable titles including 'Blindness' and 'The Chronology of Time'. more

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“Along with a dozen other students I had dissected a human cadaver and sorted its contents by size, color, function, and weight. There was nothing pleasant about the experience. Its only consolation was its truth and its only virtue was its utility.”

Humans Virtue Students Color Weight Function Size Pleasant Dozen Consolation Utility Cadavers

Book:Spin

Source: Spin

“We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.”

People Thinking Way Firsts Looks Persons Said Father Stars Unique Discussing Cosmology

Book:Axis

Source: Axis

“I believed there were no Hypotheticals in the sense of consciously acting agents - conscious entities. There was only the process. The needles of evolution, endlessly knitting.”

Process Acting Evolution Conscious Agents Entity Needles Knitting

Author:Robert Charles Wilson

“These movies belonged to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries that period of great, unsustainable, and hedonistic prosperity, driven by the burning of Earth's reserves of perishable oil, which culminated in the False Tribulation, and the wars, and the plagues, and the painful dwindling of inflated populations to more reasonable numbers.”

Firsts War Earth Numbers Century Periods Twenties Population Painful Prosperity Oil Driven Burning Reasonable Reserves Plague Tribulation Hedonistic

Book:Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America

Source: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America

“I suppose the pursuit of fashion has always carried a price, monetary or otherwise.”

Fashion Pursuit Monetary

Author:Robert Charles Wilson

“Since Deacon Hollingshead's arrival in town last July the Dominion had been hard at work, cleansing New York City of moral corruption. "Corruption" is a popular word with the enthusiasts of the Dominion, usually uttered as a prelude to the knife, the docket, or the noose.”

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Author:Robert Charles Wilson

“What had been released into the desert vacuum and starry oases of the galaxy was the inexorable logic of reproduction and natural selection. What followed was parasitism, predation, symbiosis, interdependency chaos, complexity, life.”

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Book:Vortex

Source: Vortex

“From this new point of view, the universe I had inhabited became an object I could perceive in its entirety. It was a hypersphere embedded in a cloud of alternative states - the sum of all possible quantum trajectories from the big bang to the decay of matter. "Reality" - history as we had known or inferred it - was only the most likely of these possible trajectories. There were countless others, real in a different sense: a vast but finite set of paths not taken, a ghostly forest of quantum alternatives, the shores of an unknown sea.”

“It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen.”

Lost Events Impact Screens Video Flats

Author:Robert Charles Wilson

“Ecstasy hates company.”

Hate Company Ecstasy

Book:The Perseids and Other Stories

Source: The Perseids and Other Stories