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Space (Complete Short Fiction Book 2) QUOTES

Space (Complete Short Fiction Book 2) QUOTES

1 " once believed that a published author must be an Olympian being—a wise or at least worldly philosopher-god who rises at noon, feeds his muse a diet of scotch/rocks, and debauches his soul into the keys of a rusty Underwood Noiseless while the rest of the world sleeps. "

― Robert J. Sawyer , Space (Complete Short Fiction Book 2)

2 " He made the mistake of booking first-class passage on the maiden voyage of the Titanic. When that liner struck an iceberg, the crew asked him, because of his sailing expertise, to row a lifeboat full of passengers to safety. He was an honorable man—the president of the Standard Chemical Company and a major in the Queen’s Own Rifles—and he was doing a heroic deed. "

― Robert J. Sawyer , Space (Complete Short Fiction Book 2)

3 " Earth’s ancestral vertebrate had five digits, not six, and no Earthly animal had ever evolved with more than five. The alien’s digits were arranged as four fingers flanked on either side by an opposable thumb. "

― Robert J. Sawyer , Space (Complete Short Fiction Book 2)