Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 7 “Television” (p. 110)
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Learning the World
Learning the World is a science fiction novel by British writer Ken MacLeod, published in 2005. It won the 2006 Prometheus Award, was nominated for the Hugo, Locus, Clarke, and Campbell Awards that same year, and received a BSFA nomination in 2005. Since the book's publication MacLeod has written two short stories set in the same universe, "Lighting Out" and "Who's Afraid of Wolf 359?".
Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 16 “The Anomalies Room” (p. 264)
Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 15 “Hollow Spaces of the Forward Cone” (p. 248)
Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 9 “Red Sun Circle” (pp. 136-137)
Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 14 “The Extraordinary and Remarkable Ship” (p. 239)
Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 3 “Spectral Lines” (p. 40)
Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 17 “Fire in the Sky” (p. 284)
Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 9 “Red Sun Circle” (p. 148)
Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 9 “Red Sun Circle” (pp. 134-135)
Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 14 “The Extraordinary and Remarkable Ship” (p. 237)
Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 19 “A Full and Frank Exchange of Views” (p. 326)
“I take small interest in politics,” he said. “The subject repels me.”
Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 14 “The Extraordinary and Remarkable Ship” (p. 232)
Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 15 “Hollow Spaces of the Forward Cone” (p. 249)
“Of all the sciences, astronomy was the one the superstitious liked least.”
Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 4 “A Moving Point of Light” (p. 51)
“Darvin listened to the hymn with a mixture of enjoyment of its beauty and disdain of its content.”
Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 16 “The Anomalies Room” (p. 273)
“It saddened him that military technology was so much more advanced than he’d ever imagined.”
Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 8 “Security Concerns” (p. 122)
Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 21 “But The Sky, My Lady! The Sky!” (p. 358)
Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 4 “A Moving Point of Light” (p. 51)
“We’re in danger of losing the ship generation.”
“I’m aware of the problems,” she said. “‘You can’t tell the boys from the girls, they have no respect for their elders, their user interfaces are garish and unwieldy, everybody is writing a book, and their music is just noise.’ Found scratched on a potsherd in Sumer.”
Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 15 “Hollow Spaces of the Forward Cone” (p. 248)
“Anyway…I find what you write interesting.”
“That’s what people usually say when they disagree with it.”
Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 7 “Television” (p. 110)
