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Blind Lake

Blind Lake

Robert Charles Wilson

Blind Lake is a science fiction novel by Canadian writer Robert Charles Wilson. It was published in 2003, and won a Prix Aurora Award for Best Long Form and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel, both in 2004.

““Wow,” Sue said. “You actually stole this?”
“We don’t use that word,” Elaine told her. “Chris has an unnamed high-level source.””

Robert Charles Wilson book Blind Lake

Source: Blind Lake (2003), Chapter 20 (p. 238)

“We live in an enlightened age, however, an age that has learned to see and to value other living things as they are, not as we wish them to be. And the long and creditable history of science has taught us, if nothing else, to look carefully before we judge—to judge, if we must, based on what we see, not what we would prefer to believe.”

Robert Charles Wilson book Blind Lake

Source: Blind Lake (2003), Chapter 22 (p. 258)

“His fertility cycles meant little to him. In his lifetime, he knew, he might make only one or two real contributions to the City’s genetic continuity, his viral gametes combining with others in the bodies of the night feeders to become morphologically active. It was abstractly pleasing, though, to realize he had cast his own essence into the ocean of probability, where it might come floating back unknown to him, as a fresh citizen with new and unique ideas and odors.”

Robert Charles Wilson book Blind Lake

Source: Blind Lake (2003), Chapter 33 (p. 358)

“Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash.”

Robert Charles Wilson book Blind Lake

Source: Blind Lake (2003), Chapter 15 (p. 179)

“If you understood the facts they needed no embroidery: all the wonder was already there, the more spellbinding because it was true.”

Robert Charles Wilson book Blind Lake

Source: Blind Lake (2003), Chapter 7 (p. 69)

“His heart was in the right place. He wanted a religion that could plausibly comfort widows and orphans without committing them to patriarchy, intolerance, fundamentalism, or weird dietary laws. He wanted a religion that wasn’t in a perpetual fistfight with modern cosmology.”

Robert Charles Wilson book Blind Lake

Source: Blind Lake (2003), Chapter 22 (p. 255)

“Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.”

Robert Charles Wilson book Blind Lake

Source: Blind Lake (2003), Chapter 10 (p. 116)

“Times like this, with the wind moving the grass and curling around her like a huge cool hand, Tess felt the world as a second presence, as another person, as if the wind and the grass had voices of their own and she could hear them talking.”

Robert Charles Wilson book Blind Lake

Source: Blind Lake (2003), Chapter 2 (p. 23)

“Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change.”

Robert Charles Wilson book Blind Lake

Source: Blind Lake (2003), Chapter 22 (p. 263)

“This would have been less annoying had it been untrue.”

Robert Charles Wilson book Blind Lake

Source: Blind Lake (2003), Chapter 32 (p. 347)

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