Robin Sloan Quotes

The nature of immortality is a mystery,' he says, speaking so softly that we have to lean closer to hear.' But everything I know of writing and reading tells me that this is true. I have felt it in these shelves and in others.

America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines - it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

Books of silver; books of bone; and yet the strangest thing you see in all your years at Galvanic is a boy in a ski-mask, sitting in a basement, using a computer.

Of course, of course. Drugs, music, a new age dawning … and you came for an old book.

People want things to be real. If you give them an excuse, they'll believe you.

So I guess you could say Neel owes me a few favors, except that so many favors have passed between us now that they are no longer distinguishable as individual acts, just a bright haze of loyalty. Our friendship is a nebula. (p.34)

So many favors have passed between us now that they are no longer distinguishable as individual acts, just a bright haze of loyalty. Our friendship is a nebula.