Delta-V (Delta-v, #1)

by Daniel Suarez

“When I dive an unexplored cave, it’s not a thrill.

It’s almost the opposite. I feel in focus. It’s a heightened reality—like how you might feel if a tiger walked into this room right now; you’d be 100 percent in the present. The past and the future would cease to exist.”

“Corporations are not democratic, and yet they rule every aspect of American life. If democracy is so important, why is this the case?”

John F. Kennedy said these words: ‘There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation may never come again.’”