“If my years as a shatterling had taught me anything, it was that not all questions had answers. Societies had reduced themselves to radioactive dust because they could not accept that single unpalatable truth.”

—  Alastair Reynolds, book House of Suns

Source: House of Suns (2008), Chapter 8 (pp. 84-85)

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British novelist and astronomer 1966

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