Multiple Hugo and Nebula award-winning author, Greg Bear is one of science fiction’s most accomplished writers. Bold scientific speculation, riveting plots, and a fierce humanism reflected in characters who dare to dream of better worlds distinguish his work. Now Bear has written a... read more
“Even within their protective caul,…he felt maligned by the views that somehow crept into his eyes.…Here there was only…a despondent dullness of wit, will, and enthusiasm.”
all creation is collaboration between the great and the small, always interconnected and dependent upon each other.Highlighted by 5 Kindle customers
Cats, ever the friends of books and stories—ever ready to attend to the reading of stories by sitting in a lap and purring. The death of all stories would not make them happy.Highlighted by 4 Kindle customers
Time does not rush along as a point; it smears out like the passage of a brush a minute or an hour or a week wide, sometimes a month—a brush made of fate-laden fibers, painting different pictures for different people.Highlighted by 4 Kindle customers
Between the lines A bogey walks Eight legs, eight eyes. Letters will fleeHighlighted by 3 Kindle customers
Brahma, the moving stillness within, who will awaken; Mnemosyne, the reconciler, who walked among us for a time, but who must return to her true nature; and Shiva, who will dance in joyous destruction.Highlighted by 3 Kindle customers
“Many things are conceivable, but impossible. Many more are conceivable, yet not probable. A very few are inconceivable—to us—yet still possible.”Highlighted by 3 Kindle customers
Strange that something impossible would look more convincing, surrounded by things only very unlikely.Highlighted by 3 Kindle customers
The Chaos had washed across the surface of the Earth in a wave of many dimensions, surrounding the last enclaves of humanity from above, below, and to all sides, cutting off their lines of fate as well as access in space and time. That was how the Chaos transformed, took control—and reduced its conquests to a misery of confusion and lies.Highlighted by 3 Kindle customers
As a master lost in the mists of the Brightness once said, ‘The map is not the territory.’”Highlighted by 3 Kindle customers
efficiency…He said something so utterly brilliant it was stupid. He said, ‘Dark matter is stuff waiting to happen.’”Highlighted by 3 Kindle customers
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