25 Quotes by Michael Swanwick

A few words before we attack,” Surplus said. “I know that I can trust you all to be terrifying...”“Yasss!” his mountain horse said.“Be quiet, Buttercup. However, please remember to only knock down things that are not difficult to repair – porches are fine; pottery is not.

Everybody needs a servant, excellent sir, whether they know it or not.

Doveva trovarsi sopra gli scavi archeologici, pensò. Un ottavo di miglio quadrato che era stato ancorato nella roccia sottostante con degli stabilizzatori dopo aver sepolto nel suo cuore almeno tre segnalatori di navigazione sigillati per impedire che la terra, in una nuova epoca, nascondesse di nuovo il tutto.

I’m going to move to Theory someday. Everything works there.

Writing is a matter of finding the appropriate balance of dinosaurs and sodomy.

Purdom has created a major body of work. Thoughtful, humane, intelligent, extrapolative, involving, his stories are exactly the sort of thing our genre exists to make possible. If you don’t like Tom Purdom, you don’t like science fiction. Period.

The bureaucrat fell from the sky.

This was the ultimate form of ostentation among technology freaks – to have a system so complete and sophisticated that nothing showed; no machines, no wires, no controls.

It’s not the principles that kill you in the end. It’s the books.