The Good Old Stuff Quotes

“The will to death is in all life. Every organic cell ecphorizes the inherited engrams of its inorganic origin. The pulse of life is a squamous film superimposed on an underlying matter so intricate in its delicate balancing of different energies that life itself is but a brief, vain straining against that balance.”
― Gardner Dozois, The Good Old Stuff: Adventure SF in the Grand Tradition