Quotes from book
On the Steel Breeze

Name: On the Steel Breeze
Author: Alastair Reynolds

A thousand years in the future, mankind's influence expands into the universe. Alastair Reynolds' epic vision of our journey into deep space will redefine Space Opera. Chiku Yellow is earthbound: living a peaceful life on a changing world as humanity explores a thousand new ways to experience life. Chiku Red is space-bound: blasted into deep space to investigate Eunice Akinya's last journey, and maybe discover the final secrets of space travel. Chiku Green is planet-bound: travelling thousands of lightyears to the planet Crucible. A new home for humankind; it's a habitable planet hosting a fascinating alien labyrinth. All three are Chiku Akinya. All three are pivotal to our future in space. All three are in danger ...

“Could be worse, as they say.”

Alastair Reynolds book On the Steel Breeze

“That’s the sum story of human history, isn’t it? Could be worse. As if that’s the very best that we can manage.”
Source: On the Steel Breeze (2013), Chapter 53 (p. 527)

“I had work to be getting on with. I’ve always had work to be getting on with. It’s what the universe was put there for: to give me things to do.”

Alastair Reynolds book On the Steel Breeze

Source: On the Steel Breeze (2013), Chapter 53 (p. 523)

“Humanity is an assemblage of information-processing entities, and in that regard you have potential.”

Alastair Reynolds book On the Steel Breeze

Source: On the Steel Breeze (2013), Chapter 43 (p. 438)

“I can’t tell you how much happier I’d be meeting a bunch of artificial intelligences if I also happened to have one on my side.”

Alastair Reynolds book On the Steel Breeze

“Can we drop the ‘artificial intelligence’? It’s a bit like me calling you a meat-based processing system.”
Source: On the Steel Breeze (2013), Chapter 29 (p. 312)

“This is a kindness, a thing done to another human being for no reason other than compassion. A private, dignified act of basic human decency, which history, being the bastard that it is, will probably neglect to commemorate.”

Alastair Reynolds book On the Steel Breeze

Source: On the Steel Breeze (2013), Chapter 28 (p. 304)

“Crime is an adaptive organism. Squeeze one niche and it moves into another.”

Alastair Reynolds book On the Steel Breeze

Source: On the Steel Breeze (2013), Chapter 26 (p. 283)

“Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.”

Alastair Reynolds book On the Steel Breeze

Source: On the Steel Breeze (2013), Chapter 22 (p. 253)

“Something that bad, it makes the headlines. They were idiots to bet against physics.”

Alastair Reynolds book On the Steel Breeze

Source: On the Steel Breeze (2013), Chapter (p. 149)