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In their homes, in the shadowed alleyways or fields of grain or in the sodden paddies, in the pastures and forests and tributary cities, should a comet be seen in the sky or should an unseasonable storm strew devastation or, particularly, if the earth should shake, they murmur, “Water sleeps.” And they are afraid.
— Water Sleeps, Glen Cook
— Там зафиксировано потустороннее явление, — терпеливо объясняю я ему. — Вернее, не зафиксировано. — Это одно и то же. Призраки не ловятся на пленку.
— Мариам Петросян
Fifty years ago, you would have had six new ideas before breakfast! And an erection.
— Accelerando
“Actually, I’m more of a mechanic.” “Of course,” she says, expressionless. “It’s your job to keep things broken.”
— Peter Watts, Starfish
She hears Brander trying to sing in the shower — as if we didn’t all get enough abuse during our childhoods.
— Peter Watts, Starfish
We didn’t have much documentation of our systems. All our knowledge transfer was done in person using heavy sarcasm and obscure hand waving.
Все они шли на север. Поскольку никто из них не вернулся, трудно сказать, ошиблись они или нет.
— “Хроники Нарнии” (sic!)
If you take sexual advantage of her, you’re going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.
— Shepherd Book, Firefly
Gods collect the strangest things, and certain among them save lists.
— Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.
— Charles Stross, The Atrocity Archives
