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"The gene is going to try to take everything. All it cares about is reproducing. Everything that matters to us: love, honesty, intelligence, reflection - they're all just accidents. A few freak waves swept them up on to the beach. Now the tide's coming in, to wash them away again."
From Teranesia
Even though I was crying by the time I finished this one I still maintain that Egan's work is utterly unromantic. I don't know of any other writer who could manage to draw a warm smile from the phrase 'Life is meaningless'. And of course he just had to give the lie to what I said before - although the lead character is gay the story does not rely on that at all.
This really is the last quote for a while, I've read all his books now and it's back to the relatively unnourishing fare of Clarke's Collected Stories for me.
From Teranesia
Even though I was crying by the time I finished this one I still maintain that Egan's work is utterly unromantic. I don't know of any other writer who could manage to draw a warm smile from the phrase 'Life is meaningless'. And of course he just had to give the lie to what I said before - although the lead character is gay the story does not rely on that at all.
This really is the last quote for a while, I've read all his books now and it's back to the relatively unnourishing fare of Clarke's Collected Stories for me.
