Red Bounty Quotes

“The opening notes of The Ancient’s Call hummed through the room, ponderous and heartbreakingly sad, evoking the last pages of a beloved story where you realized you’d never be able to read them for the first time again.”
― J.N. Chaney, Red Bounty

“this is Perry, my AI assistant⁠—” “Combat AI. AI assistant makes it sound like I shuffle around your paperwork,” Perry cut in. “But you do shuffle around my paperwork.” “Yeah, but I do it in a combat kind of way.”
― J.N. Chaney, Red Bounty

“True mastery of any confrontation ultimately comes from doing things your opponent doesn’t expect. Make him react to you, and not to a predictable formula.”
― J.N. Chaney, Red Bounty

“Money doesn’t corrupt by itself, but put it together with a long life, a lack of justice, and a general contempt for others, and you’ve got the schematic for the most horrible things one being can do to another.”
― J.N. Chaney, Red Bounty

“the way to handle big problems was to break them into little problems and solve them one at a time.”
― J.N. Chaney, Red Bounty

“I looked at Torina. “Why do I suddenly feel like I need a shower?” She grinned. “Maybe because you just spilled bureaucracy all over yourself.” Perry bobbed his head. “And that stuff stains, believe me.”
― J.N. Chaney, Red Bounty

“Scumbag behavior has a way of attracting more scumbag behavior to itself.”
― J.N. Chaney, Red Bounty

“impermanence.”
― J.N. Chaney, Red Bounty

“I pulled out the Moonsword and held it, point down, over Klelos’s face. “Ever hear of the Sword of Damocles?” Klelos shook his head. “It’s the idea that you’ll have something hanging over you, something you’ll never be free of.”
― J.N. Chaney, Red Bounty

“You know, I’m surprised you AIs haven’t taken over the galaxy by now,” I said. Perry gave me his amber stare. “What makes you think we haven’t?”
― J.N. Chaney, Red Bounty

“Crime pays, it turns out, but not as well as being a large corporation.”
― J.N. Chaney, Red Bounty

“You know what they say. I’d rather be judged by twelve than carried by six.”
― J.N. Chaney, Red Bounty

“The Falling Star was a lousy name for a ship, I thought. Why would you want to name your ship after the incandescent display of something being vaporized during an uncontrolled entry into an atmosphere, anyway?”
― J.N. Chaney, Red Bounty