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1 " I turned to follow Damon. “What’s happening up there?” He pointed at the blue sky. “You mean the satellites?” “I don’t mean the pope. "
― Matthew Mather , CyberSpace (CyberStorm #2)
2 " It felt a little bit eerie, and struck me with more than a little déjà vu. At least this time it wasn’t freezing cold. "
3 " Kessler syndrome "
4 " Terek and Irena stood awkwardly to one side in the polished marble foyer, their hair soaked and their clothing leaving drips on the floor. It was pouring cats and dogs and chickens and every other animal out there. "
5 " Hold on a second.” Luke looked up from the iPad and scrunched his nose upward. “So, you’re telling me that because we don’t have time signals coming from satellites up there a thousand miles away, our cell phones don’t work? And I can’t watch videos?” “That’s right,” Damon said. “That is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.” Luke returned to his game. "
6 " The intercom crackled. “Ah, folks, we’re lowering our altitude to conserve fuel, "
7 " He wrote down equations. Force equals mass times acceleration. Position is a half of acceleration multiplied by the time in seconds squared. "
8 " A HOWLING BASS rhythm propelled me through the saloon doors, the music a living thing that flowed around me on a beer-and-sweat-soaked eddy of air. "
9 " Damon and Terek had their laptops wired together again. The two of them were almost glued at the hip, like conjoined hackers. "
10 " Ukrainian?” the officer asked. “Isn’t that like Russian? "
11 " Her look of incredulity momentarily eclipsed the growing roar of the hurricane. “You’re with Chuck and you don’t have a gun? "
12 " Naked neon tubes twenty feet overhead bathed the cement floor in stark light. "
13 " A criminal is a criminal,” Chuck replied, his eyes straight ahead. “A criminal,” Terek said, closing his laptop, “is whoever the state decides is a criminal. "
14 " When the poop flies into the spinning stuff, it’s often better to make any decision than sit still and get hit. "
15 " The seedy edges of the web were the most interesting, but also the most dangerous. "
16 " Pragmatists drink the water whether the glass is half full or half empty. "