Robert J. Sawyer
14 Quotations from Robert J. Sawyer
| airlock n. | 2005 Mindscan xxx. 218 Then we cycled through the airlock, which happened to be adjacent to the pad where the moonbuses landed. |
| dayside n. | 2005 Mindscan xiii. 89 I watched as the nightside part of Earth—lenticular in this perspective, like a cat’s black pupil abutting the blue crescent of the dayside—kissed the gray lunar horizon. |
| inner space n. | 1999 in Interzone (#149) Nov. 30/3 The best of Canadian sf is just as much about the interior lives of ordinary people as is the best of mainstream literature. Americans have a space programme, and so maybe it makes sense for them to explore outer space; we Canadians don’t, and so perhaps its [sic] natural that we’ve turned to inner space. |
| kiloday n. | 1993 Fossil Hunter 203 I was fortunate enough to go on a hunt with her about a kiloday ago. |
| moon base n. | 2005 Mindscan xi. 83 The Immortex staffer had been wise to warn us: the moonbase here was utilitarian at best—it felt like the inside of a submarine. |
| moon ship n. | 2005 Mindscan xI. 80 We transferred from the spaceplane to the moonship, a metallic arachnid designed only for use in vacuum. |
| nearside n. | 2005 Mindscan xiii. 90 Earth was fiercely bright against the black sky; if the moon had an atmosphere, Earthsets—only visible from a moving vehicle, since at all locations on nearside, the Earth hung motionless in the sky—would have been spectacular. |
| nightside adj. | 2005 Mindscan xiii. 89 I watched as the nightside part of Earth—lenticular in this perspective, like a cat’s black pupil abutting the blue crescent of the dayside—kissed the gray lunar horizon. |
| overmind n. | 1998 Factoring Humanity (1999) xxxiii. 278 ‘To build the machine.’ ‘What machine?’ She opened her mouth slightly, then exhaled, feeling her cheeks puff out as she did so. ‘A machine to access…the overmind.’ Kyle tilted his head, stunned. ‘The aliens…that was what they were trying to tell us. Individuality is an illusion; we're all part of a greater whole.’ |
| plastiskin n. | 2005 Mindscan xi. 83 I’d never known Clamhead to bite anyone, but she bit me. I was wearing a short-sleeve shirt; she closed her jaws on my naked forearm and yanked backward, tearing out a ragged piece of plastiskin, revealing fiber-optic nerves, bungee-cord muscles, and a blue metal armature within. |
| solar n. | 2006 Biding Time in Slipstreams 34 ‘How much did it come to?’ He spoke to the computer again, and pointed at the displayed figure. ‘Total, nine million solars.’ I frowned. ‘NewYou charges 7.5 million for their basic service. There can’t have been enough cash left over after she transferred to be worth killing her for, unless...’ |
| spaceport n. | 2005 Mindscan viii. 59 When I was a kid, I never thought Toronto would have a spaceport. But now almost every city did, at least potentially. |
| space suit n. | 2005 Mindscan xxx. 217 It used to be, I'm told, that spacesuits had to be custom built for each user, but new adaptive fabrics made that unnecessary. |
| videophone n. | 2005 Mindscan xxxiv. 246 The videophone was signaling an incoming call. |