Fortress Sol Quotes

“Evolution had no kind of foresight, but was more an emergence of a complex net of causes and effects. Feedback.”
― Stephen Baxter, Fortress Sol

“Where Rab fell over immediately.”
― Stephen Baxter, Fortress Sol

“We tear it all down. Or at least, whatever they did do to the Sun.”
― Stephen Baxter, Fortress Sol

“Why? Why should it survive at all? Why wouldn’t the authorities just destroy it?’ Elinor said, ‘Perhaps simply because they believed they could afford to leave it, because Earth’s population is so low now. It’s not likely to be stumbled upon.”
― Stephen Baxter, Fortress Sol

“Think of the whole of this engineered Solar System as like – well, exactly like an engine. An engine that is keeping an awful lot of people alive, and has done so for an awfully long time.”
― Stephen Baxter, Fortress Sol

“The further down the hierarchy you are, the less you need to think. That’s what I believe, and it’s a shame that isn’t drummed into little kids’ heads at school.”
― Stephen Baxter, Fortress Sol

“The first to make decisions about lumes. Decisions that shaped human history, for good or ill.”
― Stephen Baxter, Fortress Sol