Reynolds: On the Steel Breeze

Summary: On the Steel Breeze by Reynolds . (Stub — expand from highlights.)

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Quotes

Concept

“The holoship is a conceptual ark, a self-contained world where the destination is less important than the transit.” (p. 56)

Behavior

“The behavior of the elephants on the ship suggests a collective intelligence that is diverging from human understanding.” (p. 124)

Game Theory

“The ‘Watchers’ are playing a game of cosmic patience, waiting to see if humanity will survive its own expansion.” (p. 312)

Cognition

“To communicate with the elephants, we had to adopt a cognition based on infrasound and long-term memory.” (p. 198)

Memory

“The memory of the Earth is fading among the ship-born, replaced by the immediate reality of the steel and the void.” (p. 450)