Salvation Lost (Salvation Sequence, #2)

by Peter F. Hamilton

Callum knew what he wanted the chamber systems to do, but his digital skills were decades out of date. Unknowing, the fate of the old had crept up on him, and now he’d become the one who provided strategy and expected others to implement it—the one they all rightly bitched about in the pub after work. When did this happen to me?

“Ideologues are welcome to live with the values they admire, I have no problem with that, but you have to give the next generation the freedom and ability to go their own way. Anything else is fascism.”

“Yes, but the government has to avoid panic.” “If the government doesn’t tell people, then you’re going to have a lot worse than just panic. Government is based on trust. If that goes, then you’ll have anarchy.” “I thought you didn’t trust government.” “I trust the idea of government. The people who are in it right now? Not so much. But that’s all we’ve got left.”