“And that’s when it turned intae the full-dress faeco-ventilatory intersection scene.”
Source: Iron Sunrise (2004), Chapter 2, “Out of the Frying Pan” (p. 45)
Quotes from book
Iron Sunrise
Iron Sunrise is a 2004 hard science fiction novel by author Charles Stross, which follows the events in Singularity Sky. The book was nominated for both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 2005.Singularity Sky depicts a future where human societies have been involuntarily taken from Earth and widely distributed across the Milky Way galaxy, seemingly at random, in the wake of a technological singularity which has led to the onset of strong AI, in the form of the Eschaton.
Source: Iron Sunrise (2004), Chapter 15, “Preparing for Ghosts and Dogs” (pp. 245-246)
Source: Iron Sunrise (2004), Chapter 18, “Grateful Dead” (p. 294)
Source: Iron Sunrise (2004), Chapter 17, “Set Us Up the Bomb” (pp. 277-278)
Source: Iron Sunrise (2004), Chapter 10, “Murder by Numbers” (pp. 160-161)
in one another’s backs
Source: Iron Sunrise (2004), Chapter 13, “Hold the Front Page” (pp. 200-201)
Source: Iron Sunrise (2004), Chapter 14, “Sybarite Class” (p. 228)
Source: Iron Sunrise (2004), Chapter 5, “Another Day, Another Editorial” (p. 71)
“Er, I can’t confirm or deny, but that’s a good guess.”
Source: Iron Sunrise (2004), Chapter 4, “Magical Mystery Tour” (p. 67)
“I just don’t like it, for extremely large values of don’t and like.”
Source: Iron Sunrise (2004), Chapter 15, “Preparing for Ghosts and Dogs” (p. 251)
Source: Iron Sunrise (2004), Chapter 13, “Hold the Front Page” (p. 202)
