This don't seem like the end.
It seems more like a bad beginning.
Schlagwort: Angst
Don't hesitate.
Big Shleppa.
Backup. A perfect, perfectly seductive name for scan and sim. She was amazed she hadn't heard it. As soon as she did, Limpopo just knew there must be thousands — millions — of people using the term. Once you conceived of the thing that made you you as data, aeons of data-handling anxiety kicked in. If you had data, it had to be backed up. Anything important that wasn't backed up was good as lost. Data is haunted by Murphy. Do something irreplaceable and magnificent while out of network and backup range and you were begging for critical failure that nuked it all.
Cory Doctorow: Walkaway
Sex(ismus) von Gestern.
Born Sexy Yesterday. It's a science fiction convention in which the mind of a naive, yet highly skilled, girl is written into the body of a mature sexualized woman. Born sexy yesterday is about an unbalanced relationship, but it’s also very much connected to masculinity.
Calming Coincidence.
Of course she's not afraid. She knows that the sun will rise again tomorrow.
Luo Ji at the end of The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
It's not the way it has to be.
I'm afraid of loving women
And I'm scared of loving men