Quotes from book
No Enemy But Time

Name: No Enemy But Time
Author: Michael Bishop

No Enemy But Time is a 1982 science fiction novel by Michael Bishop. It won the 1982 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and was also nominated for the 1983 John W. Campbell Memorial Award. It was included in David Pringle's book Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels.

“Extinction confers on the has-been the same mythological status that imagination confers on the never-was.”

Michael Bishop book No Enemy But Time

Source: No Enemy But Time (1982), Chapter 18 “In a Season of Drought” (p. 158)

“Necessary is often the mother of light fingers instead of invention.”

Michael Bishop book No Enemy But Time

Source: No Enemy But Time (1982), Chapter 10 “Fruit of the Looms” (p. 76)

“Here he was, not quite twenty-five years old, and he was going to have to make a new life for himself. A host of options lay before him, but, tipsy with Chablis and sunshine, at the moment all he could truly feel was a powerful sense of loss and uncertainty. All the routes to his previous self—the self that had tried to survive as a loner in Fort Walton Beach—were blocked, and he did not know which new path to choose.
“Ciao,” he said again, and this time he was not talking to his mother.”

Michael Bishop book No Enemy But Time

Source: No Enemy But Time (1982), Chapter 30 “Marakoi, Zarakal” (p. 315; closing words)

“They had both changed in eight years, eroded or subtly augmented by the sweep of time’s river.”

Michael Bishop book No Enemy But Time

Source: No Enemy But Time (1982), Chapter 30 “Marakoi, Zarakal” (p. 303)