Cosmonaut Keep Quotes

“I knew from the beginning it was hopeless, but it's possible to love without hope.”
― Ken MacLeod, Cosmonaut Keep

“The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission.”
― Ken MacLeod, Cosmonaut Keep

“The child turned to look at Elizabeth, then stood up. The head was more disproportionately large than that of a human baby. Upon some reassuring noises from the adults, the the young saur ran across the grass and tumbled into Elizabeth's lap. She crooned over it, tickling and stroking; it reached up its clawed fingers to her hair and whistled.

"Her name is Blathora," said Salasso. "She is two years old." . . .
"Sharp teeth," warned Salasso. "And a taste for mammal blood.”
― Ken MacLeod, Cosmonaut Keep

“Comrades and friends,’ he begins, the translation and lip-synch software maxing his street-cred as usual in all the languages of the Community. For this particular nation and region, he comes across speaking English with a gravely Central Belt Scottish accent, which I know for a fact has been swiped from old tapes of the Communist trade union leader and authentic working class hero Mick MacGahey.”
― Ken MacLeod, Cosmonaut Keep