Far Future Quotes

“If the floating cultura contained its fair share and then some of subsidized children of fortune, wealthy sybarites, refugees from ennui, and their attendant parasitic organisms, did these not serve as a communal matrix for the merchants, artists, scientist, aesthetes, and pilgrims who travelled among the stars for higher purposes? In ancient days, the courts of monarchs served as similar distillations of the more rarefied essences of human culture; these too were gilded cages filled with self-pampered birds of paradise, but in their precincts were to be found the philosophers, artists, and mages of the age.”
― Norman Spinrad, The Void Captain's Tale

“He slicked back his shock of grey hair.
'We weren’t supposed to meet formally until the foretold ‘event,’ and I wasn’t even certain I’d be President at that time,' he said as he reached out to shake my hand.
'Your entire election platform was based on extinction of the Red Endlai during the Great War. You know my role. You always planned on meeting me,' I said, ignoring his hand.”
― LI Tchaikov, Our Lit

“We stood in the sunlight, staring into the room. The fountain looked dulled, more bone than pearl, more wear and tear than contortion--puppets lose their charm when the master is in view.”
― David Aumelas, The Triangle Age