Children of Strife Quotes

“Perhaps sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from nature?”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Strife

“He is distantly aware that Humans—or at least lower-case-h humans—are the origin point of all of this. His people, the Portiids, all the rest (with one exception) derive from human science. Having met Humans, he can only assume they lost a great deal over the intervening millennia. They seem a hapless and poorly designed species.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Strife

“It is a peculiar driver of intelligence and complex behaviour”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Strife

“Intelligence is not necessarily a great evolutionary boon. Large brains”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Strife

“In spider parlance, not ‘oral tradition’ of course. A concept more akin to ‘history by foot’.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Strife

“Their long-dead ancestors had wanted their descendants to know that”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Strife

“I was Avrana Kern, says Kern—or not, apparently, Avrana Kern—after a pause.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Strife