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Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2012 QUOTES

Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2012 QUOTES

1 " Human material culture - the buildings and roads and works that would strike any human as an obvious sign of intelligence - had for years seemed like part of an elaborate mating ritual to the starlings, useless and flamboyant as the peacock's tail. "

― Joe Pitkin , Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2012

2 " The language of starlings reminded her of nothing so much as the language of scholarly papers, the smooth and chilly syntax devoid of contour, the maddening reliance on 'the royal we' as the subject. Yet this was not the royal we, not in the sense that a pompous colleague or one of her lazy graduate students might use it: at least twenty birds had together formed the multilayered sound that came to her as English words. "

― Joe Pitkin , Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2012

3 " Keep your section solvent, keep your job. "

― , Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2012

4 " Sir Parsifal started in on a chocolate milkshake, which he really did not need. "

― Paul Carlson , Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2012

5 " A supposedly daring insight came up, disguised as a question: Dr. Cole, aren't humans the most invasive species of all? She'd fielded that one many times before, during public lectures and even in her days as a teaching assistant [...] 'I'm not unsympathetic to that line of thinking,' she answered, 'but even if it's true, we're also the only species in any position to do anything about it. "

― Joe Pitkin , Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2012

6 " Mek sat in the cab, doing some self-maintenance work. Instead of a verbal reply, I got a text message: SYLVATRONICS INDUSTRIAL UNIT A023 PROCESSING AN REINTEGRATION WILL BE COMPLETE IN 57 SECONDS. VERBAL COMMUNICATIONS WILL BE POSSIBLE IN ABOUT 65 SECONDS.

Oh well, I've caught rookie driving partners in the middle of all sorts of things. At least with robots you don't have to guess. "

― Paul Carlson , Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2012

7 " It wasn't that he seemed at all violent - rather, he had a peculiar unhinged intensity that told her that to challenge him would mean hearing him defend his hypothesis for the next forty minutes. "

― Joe Pitkin , Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2012

8 " I want to support these people. The west has always been fairly colorblind, too."

"Oh?" Mek prompted me for clarification.

"Our least prejudiced region." I shook the bag of cat chow. "Heck, I shouldn't have been afraid of those ladies being harsh on robots. They didn't worry about me dissing their lifestyle."

I ended up explaining some more. "

― Paul Carlson , Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2012

9 " I leaned down in front of the shotgun seat and opened a fuse box. Plugged in a data cable, from the truck's computer across to one of Doll Box's modules. Straightened up, and in the mirror saw the gangbanger open the door of his low rider. Whoo boy! "

― Paul Carlson , Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2012

10 " Rahobot?" I looked from Ai-ling a.k.a. Alice's elfin Chinese features, to Stansfield Peter a.k.a. Pedro's stern WASP countenance, and wondered how they'd gotten on the mailing list. "Is that a Jewish outfit? "

― Paul Carlson , Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2012