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know,” Kelly said. “We got permission from our parents and everything, so we could go, too.”
Whaaaaaaaaaaaat? No they fucking didn't. What the actual shit? Immersion irreparably shattered
He peppered his lectures with quotations from Plato, Chaka Zulu, Emerson, and Chang-tzu.
What the fuck did he get from zhang-zu? Remember to feed your army? This fucking chapter is cringe as hell. Is is ludicrous levels of telling instead of showing
“Using this computer, we’ve crashed these vehicles ten thousand times: designing, crashing, modifying, crashing again. No theories, just actual testing. The way it ought to be.”
You JUST said that you can't rely on maths alone, and all your testing is via simulation?
Thorne’s dislike of theory was legendary.
Other than theoretical simulations which he gets off to
careful,” Arby said. “But it’s true about the com board, isn’t it? You could use it to make a one-pound satphone. So: did you?” Thorne stared at him for a long time. “Maybe,” he said finally. “What of it?” Arby grinned. “Cool,” he
I love that part of the sci fi that needs explaining is how to mineaturize a phone so it only weighs one pound
Arby said, “It looks like a museum!”
What the fuck why are the kids tagging along?
“You better see his office,” Arby said.
Why the fuck are you bringing these two kids with you, you pedo freak.
“No,” Thorne said. “Never mind now, Arby. We know what we have to do. Let’s go, kids!”
What the actual fuck are you doing? Take them the fuck home to their parents
“Absolutely not,” Thorne said. “It’s out of the question.”
Thank God. Why did you not drive them home on the way here?
Her mother did data entry in an insurance company during the day, and at night she worked as a waitress at Denny’s. So her mom was always busy at her jobs, and her latest boyfriend, Phil, tended to hang around the house a lot at night.
What a fucking bitch, working two jobs to support her kid. Asshole
even though they’re on dinner tables all over the world. I’m telling you, Jeff, there’s no end to this trend. Eventually, somebody’s going to say we can’t even exploit bacteria to make genetic products.” “Oh, come on.”
It might be hindsight, but that's the stupidest thing I've ever fucking heard
Everyone treated him so weird, anyway. Because he was younger, of course. And because he was black. And because he was what the other kids called a brainer.
"hey, it's been a while since I've told the readers something, instead of shown it"
the window. “Sure is a big place. Huh,” she said. “That’s weird.” “What is?” “Look out here. That building is all overgrown, like nobody’s been there for years and years.
Like, narratively, what is the fucking point of this chapter? "I wonder where we are? I wonder what that is? I'm gonna eat a sandwich. My mum works"
“Well, it seems to me,” Malcolm said, “that if Sarah’s coming all the way from Africa, we should be there to greet her.” He shrugged. “I think it’s simple politeness.”
Wow. Such tension
And suddenly, astonishingly, she was carried through, and burst into sunlight and open air. She found herself in the middle of a broad muddy river, surrounded by dense green foliage. The air was hot and still; she heard the distant cries of jungle birds.
One of those super common rivers that flows away from the ocean
