Science Fiction
The Three-Body Problem
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...
I, Robot
Personal Highlights:
  • “We are so accustomed to considering our own thoughts private.”
Nexus
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.
Permutation City
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...
The Diamond Age
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.
The Martian
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....
Ready Player One
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  • 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.
A Fire Upon The Deep
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...
Children of Time
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...
Ministry for the Future
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  • 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...
Project Hail Mary
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...