“Nothing in life produce a more powerful joy than a near miss by the Angel of Death.”
Source: The Heritage Universe, Convergence (1997), Chapter 26 (p. 516)
Quotes from book
Convergence
Humans first reached out to the stars travelling at a painfully slow sublight crawl - then they found the Bose network, which allowed ships to jump instantaneously from one node in the galactic arm to another. Once in the Network they found the Artifacts: enigmatic structures, millions of years old, left by a vanished race. Incomprehensible to both human ad non-human minds, the Artifacts seemingly defy natural law. Now, after millions of years, a new Artifact has appeared - and previously discovered Artifacts are showing strange changes in their inexplicable activities. When a motley crew of human and alien scientists and adventurers set out to examine still more Artifacts, they should have considered the fat that some changes are more dangerous than others...
“When a person was so consistently wrong, it was time to give up having opinions.”
Source: The Heritage Universe, Convergence (1997), Chapter 23 (p. 488)
“One form of insanity bears the name curiosity.”
Source: The Heritage Universe, Convergence (1997), Chapter 18 (p. 433)
Source: The Heritage Universe, Convergence (1997), Chapter 13 (p. 381)
“Science wasn’t a show-business talent, conducted in large halls and decided by audience applause.”
Source: The Heritage Universe, Convergence (1997), Chapter 6 (p. 321)
Source: The Heritage Universe, Convergence (1997), Chapter 6 (p. 317)
