Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)

by Alastair Reynolds

‘You look older, son.’ ‘Yes, well, some of us have to get on with the business of being alive in the entropic universe.’

I have an odd character defect, common amongst those of us who indulge in the sciences . . . I never, ever throw anything away.’

It struck Sylveste that Sajaki was a man who existed in the present and thought largely about the future, and for whom the past held few enticements.