Charon Quotes

“He sat down at the lab screen and thought a moment. “Put up a wide scan of the Lilith organism,” he told the computer. The screen in front of him lit up and showed a strange enlargement. Its closest relative was a virus, yet it was infinitely smaller, an alien abstract design of tiny lines and pits actually able to combine on an atomic level with actual molecules—molecules! It wasn’t a real creature but a few extra chemical ingredients on the end of a molecular formula, extras that somehow didn’t really change what the molecule was but nonetheless controlled it.”
― Jack L. Chalker, Charon: A Dragon at the Gate