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Peter Watts

Starfish

  • Arsen Avchikhanovhas quoted3 years ago
    This waiting, it's just— God, Lenie, you wouldn't put a dog through this. Please."
  • Arsen Avchikhanovhas quoted3 years ago
    She's holding her breath, there's no point in switching on her electrolyser for a measly twenty or thirty seconds.
  • Arsen Avchikhanovhas quoted3 years ago
    The ocean squeezes into Forcipiger, bullies the atmosphere into tighter and tighter corners. It never lets up.
  • Arsen Avchikhanovhas quoted3 years ago
    Your other leg's injured too. Maybe just a sprain."
  • Arsen Avchikhanovhas quoted3 years ago
    Rowan's minions were frantically rerouting power from Gorda and Mendocino, from equatorial sunfarms,
  • Arsen Avchikhanovhas quoted3 years ago
    Every building in the lower mainland had windows designed to break inwards in the event of a quake. It wasn't an ideal solution— especially to those who happened to be inside at the time— but it was the best compromise available.
  • Arsen Avchikhanovhas quoted3 years ago
    murky green glacier of broken glass, seven meters deep, packed tight with blood and wreckage and butchered body parts jammed between piecemeal panes.
  • Arsen Avchikhanovhas quoted3 years ago
    All those faults and fractures between here and there would work in their favor, firebreaks to keep the tremor from getting this far.
  • Arsen Avchikhanovhas quoted3 years ago
    looked like a contrail, seen head-on.

    "Ah, shit," Joel said.
  • Arsen Avchikhanovhas quoted3 years ago
    These GA 'scaphes are fucking dirigibles.
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