Quotes from work
Jackpot trilogy


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“I have already told you of the sickness and confusion that comes with time travelling.”

Jackpot trilogy, The Peripheral (2014)
Source: Epigraph, taken from H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, chapter 11.

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“There was a looseness to this, beyond her experience of chatbots, but a wariness as well.”

Source: Jackpot trilogy, Agency (2020), Chapter 3, "App Whisperer" (Verity reflecting on Eunice's conversational style)

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