World Engines Quotes

“Melinoe”
― Stephen Baxter, World Engines: Destroyer: A post climate change high concept science fiction odyssey

“Aristarchus.”
― Stephen Baxter, World Engines: Destroyer: A post climate change high concept science fiction odyssey

“There were no more nations, but there were neighbourhoods, regions, zones, and a hierarchy of councils, parliaments and congresses: talking shops, all the way up to some kind of world-government council. This system was what they called the Common Heritage. He wondered vaguely if this had evolved from a form of emergency organisation in the refugee days – the ‘Chaos’ – maybe built on some elements of the old UN.”
― Stephen Baxter, World Engines: Destroyer: A post climate change high concept science fiction odyssey

“It wasn’t hard to access back catalogues of stuff from his own time, of course, the big movies, many of the TV series – though there were baffling blanks, and he had the sense that there had been some major loss of data over the centuries. A burning of the library of Alexandria, that had swept away, for instance, a 2030s big-budget remake of Blake’s Seven. He had found a reference to its existence, and that was all. An agonising loss.”
― Stephen Baxter, World Engines: Destroyer: A post climate change high concept science fiction odyssey

“You suffer when you crave something different from the here and now. So, stop craving.”
― Stephen Baxter, World Engines: Destroyer: A post climate change high concept science fiction odyssey

“A recent history of the British Aircraft Corporation’s ‘Mustard’ concept of the 1960s is Dan Sharp’s British Secret Projects 5: Britain’s Space Shuttle (Crecy Publishing, 2016).”
― Stephen Baxter, World Engines: Destroyer: A post climate change high concept science fiction odyssey

“My God,’ said Josh Morris, sounding aghast. ‘What have we done?’ And he laughed.”
― Stephen Baxter, World Engines: Destroyer: A post climate change high concept science fiction odyssey

“The details to be left as an exercise to the student.”
― Stephen Baxter, World Engines: Destroyer: A post climate change high concept science fiction odyssey

“But there have only ever been fewer than two hundred billion human beings,”
― Stephen Baxter, World Engines: Destroyer: A post climate change high concept science fiction odyssey

“Blake’s Seven.”
― Stephen Baxter, World Engines: Destroyer: A post climate change high concept science fiction odyssey

“Even the deep inner senses: even proprioception”
― Stephen Baxter, World Engines: Destroyer: A post climate change high concept science fiction odyssey

“didn’t,’ Morris said casually. ‘It was obviously seeded.’ Malenfant frowned. ‘By what? A comet impact or such?’ ‘Oh, no. By whoever seeded Persephone also. The amino acid suites are identical – that alone is enough to rule out chance parallel evolutions.’ ‘You said – whoever?’ ‘And whoever seeded Earth too.’ Morris glanced around. ‘Come on! I think we’re being left behind.’ He hurried off along the track, over the glistening, bug-ridden ice. Deirdra stared at Malenfant. ‘Did he really say that? That somebody, or something, seeded”
― Stephen Baxter, World Engines: Destroyer: A post climate change high concept science fiction odyssey