Ironclads Quotes

“For all I knew, Ikea was mass-producing a flat-pack lean-to called the ‘Fükd’ just for the occasion.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Ironclads

“What Sturgeon says is that things swung round – the science of killing a man sort of galloped ahead of the science of stopping him being killed. Guns, mostly. And suddenly the sons of the rich didn’t like the idea of being soldiers, not once it was them getting shot up with the rest of the poor bastards.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Ironclads

“But the rich guys: Sturgeon says they had all the time in the world to learn stuff, and all the money in the world, and they bought the best armor that no poor bastard was going to stick a knife through, and they would just wade in and make a game of how many poor bastards they could cut up on the way. And even if things went really bad for them, they didn’t die, Sturgeon says. He says they just let themselves get captured and ransomed, and had a fine old time telling jokes to the rich guys who grabbed them about all the poor bastards they killed.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Ironclads