Beyond the Blue Event Horizon Quotes

“Four thousand A.U. plus is a long trip-and that’s as the crow flies. Or, actually, as the photon fires, because of course there aren’t a lot of crows in near-interstellar space.”
― Frederik Pohl, Beyond the Blue Event Horizon

“The difference between the ages of ten and fourteen is immense.”
― Frederik Pohl, Beyond the Blue Event Horizon

“There are times when I sit at the center of the world, and when I know that I can reach out to any of the programs my good wife has written for me and pull back any fact, absorb any explanation or command any event.

There are also times when I sit with a full console and a head full of burning questions and learn nothing, because I do not know what to ask.

And there are times when I am so full of learning and being and doing that the moments zip past and the days are packed, and other times when I am floating in slack water beside a current, and the world is sliding speedily by.”
― Frederik Pohl, Beyond the Blue Event Horizon

“I should have been a pair of ragged claws.’ The self-deprecation of mass man carried to its symbolic limit. How does he see himself? Not merely as a crustacean. Not even as a crustacean, only the very abstraction of a crustacean: claws. And ragged, at that. In the next line we see-”
― Frederik Pohl, Beyond the Blue Event Horizon

“gedanke”
― Frederik Pohl, Beyond the Blue Event Horizon

“that is a measure of how much you and the planet Earth attract each other;”
― Frederik Pohl, Beyond the Blue Event Horizon

“which is commonly understood to mean that everything is relative to something else excepting only the velocity of light.”
― Frederik Pohl, Beyond the Blue Event Horizon

“Rafiniert ist der Herr Hietschie, aber böshaft ist er nicht.”
― Frederik Pohl, Beyond the Blue Event Horizon