Quotes from book
Vacuum Flowers

Vacuum Flowers is a science fiction novel by American writer Michael Swanwick, published in 1987. It is an early example of the cyberpunk genre, and features one of the earliest uses of the concept wetware.

“We had ambition, and ascended into Hell.”
Source: Vacuum Flowers (1987), Chapter 14, “Girlchild” (p. 224)

“It was the kind of discovery that shatters old universes and opens up new ones in their place.”
Source: Vacuum Flowers (1987), Chapter 11, “Cislunar” (p. 179)

“The secret of a good scam is not to get greedy.”
Source: Vacuum Flowers (1987), Chapter 4, “Londongrad” (p. 50)