All Tomorrows Quotes

“After millennia of earthbound foreplay, Mankind’s achievements on a noteworthy level began with its political unification and the gradual colonization of Mars.”

“All trough the decades, traveling to, and later settling on Mars had been envisioned as quick, relatively easy affairs, complicated but feasible and manageable in short term.”

“When everything was ready, people came from their crowded world. They came in one-way ships; fusion rockets and atmospheric gliders, packed to the brim with colonists, sleeping in dreams of a new beginning.”

“The first steps on Mars were taken not by astronauts, but by barefoot children on lush, biosynthetic grass.”

“Following the colonization of Mars, a brief but catastrophic Interplanetary War takes place between Mars and Earth. After both planets make peace with each other, a large-scale colonization initiative is carried out by genetically-engineered humans called Star People throughout the galaxy.”

“Humans then encounter a malevolent and superior alien species called the Qu. The Qu’s religion motivates them to remake the universe through genetic engineering. A short war follows in which humanity is defeated. ”

“The Qu bioengineer the surviving humans as punishment into a range of exotic forms, many of them unintelligent. They are left to evolve on their own as the Qu leave the galaxy. ”

“The bioengineered humans range from worm-like humans to insectivores and modular and cell-based species. The book follows the progress of these new humans as they either go extinct or regain sapience in wildly different forms and gradually discover that the Qu experimented on them.”

“One race, known as the Ruin Haunters, eventually replaces their bodies with mechanical forms. They now call themselves the Gravitals. The Gravitals colonize the rest of the galaxy while annihilating most life within it, including the other post-human species. ”

“They are, themselves, destroyed by the Asteromorphs, the descendants of the human species who escaped experimentation by the Qu. The final chapters of the book detail humanity’s rebound as a post human species, their first contact with another galaxy’s life, rediscovering and defeating the Qu, and concluding with the rediscovery of Earth.”

“This grim cycle caused them to appreciate every moment of their existence dearly, and they pondered upon it with feverish intensity.”

“It was easy to see that, within a few hundred thousands years, Humanity could start over again with these titanic primitives.”

″...humans had to adapt themselves- or face extinction.”

“Sooner or later, human intelligence returned to the cosmos. But except from their shared ancestry, these new people had nothing in common with ‘people’ of today, or even each other.”

“After an eternity of tortured lives, the human fields tasted something that could almost be described as hope.”

“Due to their biological structure, these people had managed the impossible. They were actually living in a world of peace and utopian equality, where everybody was happy to be parts of greater, united wholes.”