“It was his experience that crises in space fell into two categories: those that killed you immediately, usually without much warning, and those that gave you plenty of time to ruminate on the problem, even if no solution was very likely.”

—  Alastair Reynolds , book Redemption Ark

Source: Redemption Ark (2002), Chapter 15 (p. 265)

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