Writing science fiction is a race between the author's imagination and the progress of science and history. Fiction is always on the losing end; the … - James S. A. Corey

Your Dad's going to be different. But if anything about him is what it used to be? That part'll be how he felt about you.
That's sweet," Teresa said. "And complete bullshit.
You don't know. Until you have a kid, you won't. I will plant my flag on that one. The love of a parent for their kid is the last thing to go.

That man could take a visitation from God with thirty underdressed angels announcing that sex was okay after all and make it seem vaguely depressing.

Djuna had stopped letting him watch the local newsfeeds at breakfast on the weekends. Too many stories about bodies being found in unfortunate conditions. Too many missing people, too many espionage claims, too many reminders from the still-official security apparatus that Pinkwater was an unaffiliated corporate entity with no political litmus tests and only the safety and well-being of the citizens of Ganymede at heart. The sorts of things people said because they weren’t true.