Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

by Kim Stanley Robinson

Oh, the double binds were endless! They were to be both extraordinary and extra ordinary, at one and the same time.

And seeing you helps me to think about it.” Which it did, though he was never much at doing it on his feet; so he just slithered along a bit more in his free associational way, plucking whatever stuck out of the bag of his thoughts.