The Thousand Earths Quotes

“We are a side-effect of the universe, not its central function – which seems to be to create star stuff, to form stars.”
― Stephen Baxter, The Thousand Earths

“It’s just – you get used to having somebody in control. Somebody to sort stuff out for you. Even life and death.’

That had always been an illusion, she thought now. In this world at least. If she hadn’t understood that before witnessing the advance of the Perimeter for herself, she did now. Nobody was in charge, there was no logic to their lives, save for the slow, grand mechanism of the world itself, and it cared nothing for humans.”
― Stephen Baxter, The Thousand Earths

“Mother seemed to be pulling himself together.”
― Stephen Baxter, The Thousand Earths

“But most of them, as you may have insinuated, Gine, do nothing but rehash their education, look up the theories of their predecessors, and debate them afresh.”
― Stephen Baxter, The Thousand Earths

“A parasite.’ That was what was making him uncomfortable. She gave him an odd look. ‘A parasite? Humanity as a parasite? Maybe you think that way because you’re from an age of parasites, a primitive age where there really were still dangerous viruses roaming your one and only planet”
― Stephen Baxter, The Thousand Earths

“chthonic”
― Stephen Baxter, The Thousand Earths

“Five million years was plenty of time to forget, as you evolved or devolved or whatever the hell.”
― Stephen Baxter, The Thousand Earths

“The Substrate which lay under the whole world.”
― Stephen Baxter, The Thousand Earths