Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)

by Lindsay Ellis

http://www.thebrokenseal.org.

“This isn’t the 1960s, Agent Kaplan,” said Demi. “Revolutions don’t need faces anymore.”

Media companies, like any industry that is complicit with a great lie at the expense of its own consumers, are complicit in murder.

Cora came to the realization that she was humanity’s foremost expert on extraterrestrial life.

But the fact remains that there was a more powerful entity that imposed itself upon the less powerful entity through violent means, cultural imperialism, disease, and otherwise. “‘This phenomenon is not unique to any one species. It is in the nature of all organisms, intelligent and non-intelligent alike, to understand other entities only through their own prism of existence. We understand each other only insofar as we understand ourselves.’”

“No intelligent species has evolved past fear. Least of all my own. Without fear, there would also be no survival.

That doesn’t mean terrible things are inevitable or that we’d see them in our lifetime. But what do we do with the knowledge that terrible things are possible, if not inevitable?”