“Rituals should have some unpleasantness, or you don’t appreciate them properly.”
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 6, “Tariqat” (p. 291)
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“One sign of a good action is that in retrospect it appears inevitable.”
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 6, “Tariqat” (p. 296)
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 6, “Tariqat” (p. 315)
““Art is an optimist,” Nadia said to Maya as they walked on.
“Art is an idiot,” Maya replied.”
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 7, “What Is to Be Done?” (p. 356)
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 7, “What Is to Be Done?” (p. 370)
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 7, “What Is to Be Done?” (p. 387)
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 7, “What Is to Be Done?” (p. 391)
“Nakedness was dangerous to the social order, she thought, because it revealed too much reality.”
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 7, “What Is to Be Done?” (p. 395)
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 8, “Social Engineering” (p. 401)
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 8, “Social Engineering” (p. 410)
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 9, “The Spur of the Moment” (p. 450)
“Every generation is its own secret society.”
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 9, “The Spur of the Moment” (p. 480)
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 10, “Phase Change” (p. 579)
“Not everyone was as good at creation as they were at complaining.”
Kim Stanley Robinson
(1952) American science fiction writer
Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 2, “Areophany” (p. 64)
“But one had to trust instruments over instincts, that was science.”
Kim Stanley Robinson
(1952) American science fiction writer
Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 2, “Areophany” (p. 70)
Kim Stanley Robinson
(1952) American science fiction writer
Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 2, “Areophany” (p. 80)
Kim Stanley Robinson
(1952) American science fiction writer
Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 3, “A New Constitution” (pp. 128-129)
Kim Stanley Robinson
(1952) American science fiction writer
Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 3, “A New Constitution” (p. 156)
Kim Stanley Robinson
(1952) American science fiction writer
Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 3, “A New Constitution” (p. 156)
“Power is like matter, it has gravity, it clumps and then starts to draw more into itself.”
Kim Stanley Robinson
(1952) American science fiction writer
Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 4, “Green Earth” (p. 166)