Robert Charles Wilson
Since Deacon Hollingshead's arrival in town last July the Dominion had been hard at work, cleansing New York City of moral corruption. "Corruption" is a popular word with the enthusiasts of the Dominion, usually uttered as a prelude to the knife, the docket, or the noose.Collection: New York
The suicidally disgruntled were legion, And their enemies included any and all Americans, Brits, Canadians, Danes, et cetera; or, conversely, all Moslems, dark-skinned people, non-English-speakers, immigrants; all Catholics, fundamentalists, atheists; all liberals, all conservatives...For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape.Collection: Suicide
What had been released into the desert vacuum and starry oases of the galaxy was the inexorable logic of reproduction and natural selection. What followed was parasitism, predation, symbiosis, interdependency chaos, complexity, life.Collection: Oasis
Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.Collection: Saint
It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen.Collection: Impact
Ecstasy hates company.Collection: Hate
If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it's because I'm also a realist.Collection: Agnostic
Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story?Collection: Stories
When does loyalty become martyrdom?Collection: Loyalty
Some things are taken away from you, some you leave behind and some you carry with you, world without end.Collection: Taken
Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change.Collection: Ignorance
I loved Molly. Or at least I told myself I did. Or, if what I felt for her was not love, it was at least a plausible imitation, a convincing substitute.Collection: Imitation
Some pious men may find this truth unorthodox and bitter: But Nature, Chance, and Time ensure survival of the fitter!Collection: Men