The Genesis Signal Quotes

“to rack your brain over things that you cannot change anyway was not expedient.”
― Dominik A. Meier, The Genesis Signal: Science Fiction Thriller

“Aacken turned his head to the side, opened the visor of his visor and looked at Adrian with an indefinable expression.”
― Dominik A. Meier, The Genesis Signal: Science Fiction Thriller

“It was still difficult for him to understand the past time in the abstract and to accept that everything he knew was supposed to be gone. In his own perception, he had entered the cryo-capsule only a few hours ago, only to wake up more or less immediately. Not a particularly pleasant process; neither before nor after, but at its core no different than a deep sleep or anesthesia. And yet, 2,000 years had passed.”
― Dominik A. Meier, The Genesis Signal: Science Fiction Thriller

“Images that had been taken only minutes ago, showing what was left of the Earth. And that, by God, was not much. Deserts of sand and ice - dead, algae-eaten oceans - and the ruins of cities that looked like cancerous growths on the face of the planet in their shades of black and gray.”
― Dominik A. Meier, The Genesis Signal: Science Fiction Thriller

“Personally, he had always hoped for a less brutal ending. That humanity would not perish in the fires of war or in a planetary pandemic, but that it would slowly die out, as species have done since the dawn of all life. That it had simply gone downhill at some point and in the end there were simply not enough left to go on. This was probably a hope that would have inevitably been dashed from the very beginning. A hope that could not have come true at all, because even if mankind had taken this path, it would have been its very nature to go for each other's throats in the struggle for resources and survival. It was not without reason that all analysts had assumed at an earlier stage that warlike activity was inevitable.”
― Brandon Q. Morris, The Genesis Signal: Science Fiction Thriller