““You look older, son.”
“Yes, well, some of us have to get on with the business of being alive in the entropic universe.””

— Alastair Reynolds, book Revelation Space

Source: Revelation Space (2000), Chapter 16 (p. 332).

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British novelist and astronomer 1966

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