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“The hardest theme in science fiction is that of the alien. The simplest solution of all is in fact quite profound—that the real difficulty lies not in understanding what is alien, but in understanding what is self. We are all aliens to each other, all different and divided. We are even aliens to ourselves at different stages of our lives. Do any of us remember precisely what it was like to be a baby?”

Greg Bear

"Introduction to 'Plague of Conscience'", The Collected Stories of Greg Bear (2002)

Understanding , Science , Baby

“He may not have had time, but even allowing him the time, Vergil simply did not think such things through. Brilliant in the creation, slovenly in the consideration of consequences.
But wasn’t that true of every creator?
Didn’t anyone who changed things ultimately lead some people—perhaps many people—to death, grief, torment?”

Greg Bear

Source: Blood Music (1985), Chapter 41 (p. 219)

Death , People , Thinking , Change

“Information can be stored even more compactly than in molecular memory. It can be stored in the structure of space-time. What is matter, after all, but a standing-wave of information in the vacuum?”

Greg Bear

Source: Blood Music (1985), Chapter 45 (p. 237)

Memory , Time