Personal Highlights:

• Is it possible that the relationship between humanity and evil is similar to the relationship between the ocean and an iceberg floating on its surface?...
• “On Trisolaris, of the more than two hundred civilizations, including our own, none has ever experienced such accelerating development. The progress of science and technology...
• Milky Way. When the perspective has been raised to nine dimensions, a fundamental particle’s internal structures and complexity are equal to the whole universe. As...

Personal Highlights:

• “We are so accustomed to considering our own thoughts private.”

Personal Highlights:

• Sam swallowed. She could feel bile rising up inside her. Had he been conscious for those two hours? she wondered. The fourth-gen corticovascular valves would...
• He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you stare too long into the abyss, the abyss stares also into you.

Personal Highlights:

• He finally reached the EMERGENCIES menu – which included a cheerful icon of a cartoon figure suspended from a parachute. Bailing out was what everyone...
• When you modeled a fusion power plant, no energy was produced. When you modeled digestion and metabolism, no nutrients were consumed – no real digestion...
• In twelve short real-time years as a Copy, he’d tried to explore every possibility, map out every consequence of what he’d become. He’d transformed his...

Personal Highlights:

• Bud was running out of money and getting tired of eating the free food from the public matter compilers.
• Equity Lords
• “In your Primer you have a resource that will make you highly educated, but it will never make you intelligent. That comes from life.

Personal Highlights:

• But Sojourner has six independent wheels that rotate reasonably fast. It’ll be much easier to communicate with those. I could draw letters on the wheels....

Personal Highlights:

• Douglas Adams. Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman, Sterling, Moorcock, Scalzi, Zelazny.
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Personal Highlights:

• was not impossible for a lugger to be trapped a light-year or two within the Slowness. It was then you’d thank goodness for the ramscoop...

Personal Highlights:

• Her world is one in which there is no great divide between the thinkers and the thoughtless, only a long continuum.
• It was everything: from the very beginning his people had known they were inheriting a used world. The ruins and the decayed relics of a...
• There had been no innovation that the ancients had not already achieved, and done better. How many inventors had been relegated to historical obscurity because...

Personal Highlights:

• Saudi Aramco, Chevron, Gazprom, ExxonMobil, National Iranian Oil Company, BP, Royal Dutch Shell, Pemex, Petróleos de Venezuela, PetroChina, Peabody Energy, ConocoPhillips, Abu Dhabi National Oil...
• To my mind, money acts as if it worked as gravity does— the more of it you gather together, the more gathering power it exerts,...
• Dick: Right. This often gets admitted. No one denies future people are going to be just as real as us. So there isn’t any moral...

Personal Highlights:

• Kind of like “batteries included” toys. The little plastic tab was there to keep the battery from running down before the owner uses it for...
• Light is a funny thing. Its wavelength defines what it can and can’t interact with. Anything smaller than the wavelength is functionally nonexistent to that...
• “Methane breaks down in the atmosphere after ten years. We can knock chunks of Antarctica into the sea every few years to moderate the methane...