State Tectonics Quotes

“You don't remember what it was like before Information... Competing data sources tore down any idea of truth; people voted based on falsehoods. We didn't invent surveillance: there were plenty of feeds and search trackers, but they were fragmented and firewalled by governments and private companies. The surveillance was used to propagate falsehoods.”
― Malka Ann Older, State Tectonics

“Ken is trying to figure out how anyone could be a stronger decision-maker than Mishima”
― Malka Ann Older, State Tectonics

“Her public persona has some disadvantages, though. She doesn’t need the pollsters to tell her not everyone wants a neurodivergent assassin as their representative.”
― Malka Ann Older, State Tectonics

“Mishima’s life has not, she thinks, prepared her to be so relaxed with strangers whose approval she needs.”
― Malka Ann Older, State Tectonics

“the sugarcane vendor, a pushcart with a hand-crank machine that cores the caña, pulps the inside, and pours it back into the hollow stalk, which is then sealed for easy transport.”
― Malka Ann Older, State Tectonics