Quotes from book
Ring

Name: Ring
Author: Stephen Baxter

Stephen Baxter

Wormhole technology has revealed that our sun will die in 5,000,000 years. A race of superbeings, the fabulous Xeelee, owners of the universe, are thought to be responsible. The bizarre and wealthy cult, the Superet, funds two projects aimed at combatting the force that will murder the sun.

“The river of time flowed unmarked, towards the endless seas of timelike infinity.”

Stephen Baxter book Ring

Source: Ring (1994), Chapter 35 (p. 891; closing words)

“Maybe we should gather a few more facts before wasting our time speculating.”

Stephen Baxter book Ring

Source: Ring (1994), Chapter 30 (p. 852)

“Maybe it’s time we humans abandoned our species-specific chauvinism—our petty outrage that the Universe has unfolded in a way that doesn’t suit us.”

Stephen Baxter book Ring

Source: Ring (1994), Chapter 27 (p. 825)

“Empty. Barren. These were the true conditions of the Universe, she thought; life, and variety, and energy, were isolated aberrations.”

Stephen Baxter book Ring

Source: Ring (1994), Chapter 18 (p. 743)

“Understanding is the key to turning anything from a threat into an opportunity.”

Stephen Baxter book Ring

Source: Ring (1994), Chapter 17 (p. 736)

“She tried, sometimes, to remember how it had been to be young. Or ever, not quite so old.”

Stephen Baxter book Ring

Source: Ring (1994), Chapter 13 (p. 704)

“You know, in principle, why our world is as it is. Isn’t that sufficient? Is it really necessary for you to understand every detail?”

Stephen Baxter book Ring

But if I don’t understand, Morrow thought sourly, then you can control me. Arbitrarily. And that’s what I find hard to accept.

Chapter 8 (p. 649)
Ring (1994)