Judas Unchained Quotes

“But to have dreamed the dream is to have flown above the mountains so high in all but deed.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Judas Unchained

“Are you sure it is trustworthy, Mellanie?"
"I'd be dead if it wasn't."
"Yes, I suppose that does generate a respectable level of personal confidence.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Judas Unchained

“I don’t understand why you need verbal trickery to ensnare a temporary mate,” Tochee said. “Are you not attracted to each other by what you are?”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Judas Unchained

“Any species possessing this kind of knowledge base is best left unannoyed.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Judas Unchained

“Why do they both refer to your deity while mating?" Tochee inquired as it munched on some rehydrated cabbage. "Is it a request for a blessing?”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Judas Unchained

“The universe was not built on integrity. In the face of weakness, force can and will triumph. All you can do is choose who wields that force. Us or the Starflyer.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Judas Unchained

“During the Trinity test of the very first atom bomb, Fermi wondered if the detonation would ignite the Earth’s atmosphere. They just didn’t know, you see. We think the quantum disruption won’t propagate. If it does, then the whole universe gets converted into energy.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Judas Unchained

“I don’t get it. There’s nothing here. Send your invasion force halfway across the galaxy so they can build a five star ski resort? That’s crazy.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Judas Unchained

“rationalize that as something else”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Judas Unchained

“Their electronics are still back in the Stone Age.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Judas Unchained

“Carbon Goose flying boats”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Judas Unchained

“Jesus, Doc,’ Mac barked. ‘You were just supposed to blow the bloody thing out of orbit.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Judas Unchained

“Alessandra”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Judas Unchained

“We do indeed, sir. Our restaurant has the finest menu in town. Would you like to see it now?” “No, just send the food up to the suite.” “Yes, sir. Er, which items?” “All of it.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Judas Unchained

“He could have walked in through the main gate and they’d never know. Usually. And that was the one thing that Adam had lectured him about ceaselessly. There was no usual.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Judas Unchained

“Well, guess what happened when somebody’s starship went poking around? The goddamn thing was packed full of scientists desperate to see what was inside. I mean, why you dumbasses see curiosity as one of your overriding virtues is anyone’s guess. Ever heard of caution?”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Judas Unchained

“The greenhouse effect never did achieve the worst-case scenarios that the more evangelical environmentalists claimed it would.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Judas Unchained

“We couldn’t get hold of a good cop to work this routine properly,” Tarlo said. “They’re all out on the streets helping decent citizens in these troubled times. So we’re just going to have to do the bad cop, worse cop setup instead.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Judas Unchained

“It was an encrypted message and routed through a onetime address,”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Judas Unchained

“Cults have refined their recruitment operations down the centuries until they have become masters of extracting devotion and money from their damaged followers in exchange for their own vision of salvation.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Judas Unchained

“Another difference,” Rob said. “What?” “There’s no color on anything they build, no finish or decoration. All the external material is raw.” “They’re color blind as well.” “And immune to esthetics?” “Okay, then. You tell me.” “I don’t know why, I’m just pointing it out. Their culture has no art.” “Have you seen the crap flooding the unisphere these days?”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Judas Unchained

“Cagayn police have issued an all-officer dispatch for vans of that description to be pulled over and checked.” “The boss would have loved that one: proper police work.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Judas Unchained

“Losing twenty-three planets in a day is simply unacceptable.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Judas Unchained

“I believe I understand, friend Orion," Tochee said. "You are attracted to the young female of your species. Is she one totally fuckable babe?”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Judas Unchained

“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. - Tochee”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Judas Unchained

“just how naïve could a porn star be?”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Judas Unchained

“Ozzie hurriedly loaded in restrictions that would stop the boy wading through porn all night long—”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Judas Unchained

“Like the original concept, the stormrider had rectangular blades, sixteen of them radiating out from the hub, each one a flat lattice of struts twenty-five kilometers long, made from the toughest steelsilicon fibers the Commonwealth knew how to manufacture. Twenty-three kilometers of them were covered by an ultra-thin silvered foil, giving a total surface area of over one thousand eight hundred square kilometers for the solar wind to impact on. Even in an ordinary solar system environment that would have produced a considerable torque. In the Half Way system the stormrider was positioned at the Lagrange point between the red star and its neutron companion, right in the middle of the plasma current, where the ion density was orders of magnitude thicker than any normal solar wind. The power the stormrider produced when it was in the thick of the flow was enough to operate the wormhole generator. But it couldn’t simply sit at the Lagrange point producing electricity continuously; that would have been too much like perpetual motion. As the waves of plasma pushed against it, they exerted an unremitting pressure on the blades that blew the stormrider away from the Lagrange point out toward the neutron star. So for five hours the two sets of blades would turn in opposite directions, generating electricity for the Port Evergreen wormhole that was delivered via a zero-width wormhole. The stormrider also stored some of the power, so that at the end of the five hours when it was out of alignment, it had enough of a reserve to fire its onboard thrusters, moving itself even farther out of the main plasma stream where the pressure was reduced. From there it chased a simple fifteen-hour loop back around through open space to the Lagrange point, where the cycle would begin again.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Judas Unchained

“handed it over”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Judas Unchained