Six Wakes

by Mur Lafferty

“I’m useless until I get some food. And whiskey will help the waiting,” said Katrina. “Just a sip.”

But… she's the captain -- this seems very counter to expectations.

They had been doing just fine for millennia not eating pork, no reason to start now.

This is like the exact opposite conclusion reached by the Islamic scholars in Accelerando.

“Aside from IAN, yeah,” she said.

Hooray for a surveillance state!

It was like calling something the first annual celebration. You can’t have a first until you have a second.

logic has to be the dominant factor here, or else we’re all vigilantes.”

You can’t do penance when there is nothing to heal inside you.”

The subconscious wasn’t so easily accessed, like a mental grocery store that’s closed except from three to four a.m., and with a key you had to find in the dark.

“What do you need to say?” IAN asked, his face collapsing with suspicion.

A real HAL9000 moment

Dying on a ghost ship felt noble and romantic. Dying from an attack by the boil on the neck of the crew was pathetic.

We can’t trust him unless we very carefully go over his mindmap.”

The map is not the territory