Lords of Uncreation (The Final Architecture #3)

by Adrian Tchaikovsky

being a Tothiat was apparently a living hell of constant and formative pain that also made you the next best thing to immortal.

once you’ve made the plan, and you’ve got the wealth or power to make it happen, nature takes its course, doesn’t it? *

But still, it was galling that Kris wasn’t just putting that down now Olli was back and making herself available to be bitched at.

ornery

‘Wars were done by Hanni,’ Kit told her. ‘They are not known to you. We got better. Why do you think we like games so much?’

Until at some point, the necessity of doing bad things for a good cause became, by the inexorable ratchet of cognitive dissonance, the insistence that doing things the bad way was a virtue in itself. Because otherwise how could one justify all the bad things already done?

benthic