The bomb lives only as it is falling. ✨ Use of Weapons. Book by Iain B…

Iain Banks
59 citations
The bomb lives only as it is falling. ✨ Use of Weapons. Book by Iain Banks, www.theguardian.com. September 13, 1990.
Reading
15

More Author Quotes

The truth is not always useful, not always good. It’s like putting your faith in water. Yes, we need the rain, but too much can sweep you away in a flood and drown you. Like all great natural, elemen … ▶
My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is. ✨ Interview with Ken Livingstone, www.newstatesman.com. September 17, … ▶
If this goes badly and I make a crater, I want it named after me! ✨ Iain M. Banks (2008). Against A Dark Background, p.199, Hachette UK
Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It was a conventional opening, the equivalent of … ▶
It's a library, only the stupid or the evil are afraid of those

The bomb lives only as it is falling. ✨ Use of Weapons. Book by Iain Banks, www.theguardian.com. September 13, 1990.

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes