Re: SF Quotes

Well, it looks like SOMEONE is going to have to interject some
literary references. Don't you guys READ? :-)

Anyway, here's some of my favourite SF passages.

"You don't hit a man with your hand unless you're naked and they've
nailed your feet to the ground." - David Drake, _Cross the Stars_

"They set a slamhound on Turner's trail in New Delhi, slotted it to
his pheromones and the color of his hair. It caught up with him on the
street called Chandni Chauk and came scrambling for his rented BMW
through a forest of bare brown legs and pedicab tires. Its core was a
kilogram of recrystallized hexogene and flaked TNT." - William Gibson,
_Count Zero_

"The Deliverator's car has enough potential energy packed into its
batteries to fire a pound of bacon into the Asteroid Belt." - Neal
Stephenson, _Snow Crash_

"There's only four things that we [Americans] do better than anyone
else 

music
movies
microcode (software)
high speed pizza delivery" - Neal Stephenson, _Snow Crash_ (starring
one of the best named figures in SF: Hiro Protagonist)

"The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead
channel." - William Gibson, _Neuromancer_

Allan Goodall	     agoodall@sympatico.ca

"Once again, the half time score, 
 Alien Overlords: 142,000. Scotland: zip."
  - This Hour Has 22 Minutes