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Dead Man's Hammer QUOTES

Dead Man's Hammer QUOTES

1 " Nationalism leads to all sorts of nasty things (even Nazi things) like fascism and war. "

― Christina Engela , Dead Man's Hammer

2 " How very like humans to pervert a message of love and peace to make it into an ideology of war and oppression to serve their own ends. "

― Christina Engela , Dead Man's Hammer

3 " It seems to me that wherever religion and politics mix in one body, fascist values - and not 'family values' - rear their ugly head. "

― Christina Engela , Dead Man's Hammer

4 " If you 'don't do politics' , trust me - politics will do you. "

― Christina Engela , Dead Man's Hammer

5 " How in any way does EQUALITY with other people equate to 'religious persecution'? Does the survival of a religion depend on the vilification and desecration of the humanity of others? "

― Christina Engela , Dead Man's Hammer

6 " Ramalama was moving higher in the sky already, the day was getting on. He was going to be late getting to San Fedora for his meeting with the Sheriff. And as a bounty hunter – even a good one with a lot of work, time is money. It seemed today that time was running out for Beck the Badfeller. "

― Christina Engela , Dead Man's Hammer

7 " Apparently some rustlers had been swiping red-horned wildebeest from farms in the San Fedora area and transporting them off-world to other colonies where they would sell them. And these were known repeat offenders. He could make a packet if he got the whole bunch of them the same time. The pickings were kind of slim in Atro City lately and he could use the money. He didn’t like feeling like a leech around Cindy-Mei. "

― Christina Engela , Dead Man's Hammer

8 " There are enough real enemies and threats in the world without having to invent imaginary ones. "

― Christina Engela , Dead Man's Hammer

9 " Sumone Yiden Smiff was a businessman of note. Was, past tense. Through years of sweat and swearing and amazingly smart (or lucky) deals he’d built up a mining empire that spanned the sum of known space. At 74 years, he had reached the apex of a career stretching half a century. His companies mined precious commodities like Impervium, Obstinatium and Bitanium. He wasn’t really famous, or ostentatious. In fact he only ever made the cover of Fortune One Billion once, twenty-five years ago. He’d never married, had lots of children – light-years apart, apparently. "

― Christina Engela , Dead Man's Hammer

10 " The passenger liner Ossifar Distana was one of the most luxurious of its kind in space anywhere. It ferried the cream of society across the void in opulence and style. Only the wealthiest could afford an apartment on this ship for a trip of any duration, even a short one around the proverbial block. Even the crew was obliged to pay rent. "

― Christina Engela , Dead Man's Hammer

11 " So rich a client having suffered such a messy death was an unsettling embarrassment to Captain Harald Biscay. It was bad for business. He had the murder hushed up immediately, his security staff investigating the matter covertly but thoroughly. Five and a half thousand souls onboard. Five and a half thousand suspects. Three days. So far, nothing. Now it would be taken further by the planetary authorities on the colony world below. A forensic team (cunningly disguised as a cleaning crew) was now rummaging through Smiffs apartment, examining every single particle. He had a feeling -- a strong feeling, about what they were going to find. Somehow, Biscay was of the opinion that this was going to be another contender for the Unsolved Murders show. "

― Christina Engela , Dead Man's Hammer

12 " Imagine, if you will:

A bright yellow star lit the darkness somewhere in deep space, accompanied by its rather dysfunctional family of nine deceptively ordinary-looking planets. During its enormously long lifetime many beings had named it from the far ends of distant telescopes, including it into numerous star clusters and constellations as they were perceived from their vantage points. Once, or maybe twice, creatures simply looked up into their own skies to name it from their own now long dead and deserted worlds. In more recent times, beings from a world that orbited a different sun far away gave it a name too – creatures that called themselves Human, who travelled here and settled on one of its inner planets. The planet they chose to make a new home on? They called that Deanna. They called the star Ramalama. "

― Christina Engela , Dead Man's Hammer

13 " Captain Harald Biscay rubbed his graying temples, staring deep in thought at the vast star field showing on the large navigation display on the bridge. It had been a pretty rough few days for him. Of all the things he’d seen in his travels through the universe, not many rated worthy of being remembered. Of the few examples of items Captain Biscay rated that highly, when he was a young man, his uncle would often play the bagpipes at strange hours of the night – shortly before being put in a ‘home’. That rated a mention. "

― Christina Engela , Dead Man's Hammer

14 " Be assured, a God who spoke the universe into existence would not need grains of dust to fight holy wars for him. "

― Christina Engela , Dead Man's Hammer

15 " The reason for the peculiar name could be found in the whimsical sense of humor of the early colonists who arrived on Deanna several decades in the past and found very little at all there to laugh at. Obsidian Crows might seem funny at first, unless you just happened to ride over one with your Jeepo five miles out of town and didn’t have a spare tire. Although there was a reasonable expectation of hitting one of these diminutive brutes on the roads, this did not happen nearly as often as you might think. "

― Christina Engela , Dead Man's Hammer

16 " The best way to piss off your enemies is to out-succeed, out laugh and out live them. "

― Christina Engela , Dead Man's Hammer

17 " Many times we refer to people who express hate or behave in a barbaric, savage 'inhuman' way as 'animals', but on closer inspection we can clearly see that this is in fact, an insult to animals. "

― Christina Engela , Dead Man's Hammer

18 " While EQUALITY means no more 'previously disadvantaged' it also means that there should be no 'currently disadvantaged' to replace them. "

― Christina Engela , Dead Man's Hammer

19 " On any given day, Ossifar Distana carried around 5000 passengers, the actual figure varying slightly depending on where she was on the vast elliptical cruise that took her around the Terran Empire. When she entered the system she carried 4984 passengers, 500 crew, one dead body and one very puzzled Captain. "

― Christina Engela , Dead Man's Hammer

20 " Nothing unusual was noted during the voyage, in fact everything ran smoothly until Security alerted Biscay about the stiff in cabin 407. Nobody heard or saw anything suspicious. None of the passengers were missing or acting suspiciously. No airlock doors were opened or any transports allowed since their last stop four days prior. There were no notorious names on the passenger list, nor any unsavory persons among the ranks of his crew. In fact, the ship’s commander had never even seen a dead body in real – um, life before. And yet, almost magically, there it was. "

― Christina Engela , Dead Man's Hammer