Adam Roberts

Also known as A. R. R. R. Roberts, A3R Roberts, Robertski Brothers, A.R.R.R. Roberts, Don Brine, Adam Charles Roberts

British writer known for speculative fiction and parody novels; literature and writing academic

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““You’re just doing that to pass the time,” said Davide, dismissively.“Just to pass the time,” agreed Jac. “Though I suppose time will pass, in any case, regardless of what I do.””
“Jack considered: there were worse things that could happen than him dying. Of course, there were much better things, too.”
“What’s inside the box?Doubt is there.What’s another name for doubt?Death is another name for doubt. Death is what inflects the immortal certainty of the universe’s process with uncertainty.”
“His last hours alive. But he didn’t know!None of us will know, of course. The weird grammar of death. You die, he or she dies, they die, but there is no genuine form for “I”. Not really. All know that, none know when.”
“She had expected to encounter death as a kind of existential depth and had been disappointed. But maybe there was a deeper truth there. Maybe profundity actually is a mode of disappointment. The rhythm of the climax—joy and despair, sex and pain—is of course the currency of life. Death can only ever be a sort of anticlimactic belatedness.”
“People-problems did not interest her. Data seemed to her a larger, purer, more transcendent quantity than Homo sapiensness. Human-to-human interactions were, effectively, all just politics, and politics bored her.”

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