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Shards of Honour

Cover of Shards of Honour.

I re-read “Shards of Honour” somewhat by accident while looking up a quote for a writing exercise. I had remembered it as a decent first entry in brilliant series: Okay sci-fi, but nothing special.

Hoo boy. Re-reading this book showed me just how wrong I was. This book is an excellent example of what sci-fi space romance can look like. I’m not sure if I was in a better frame of mind when re-reading it, or if the knowledge of the older versions of Cordelia and Aral helped, but here’s how much I was into the book: My tooling converts books to text files and opens them in vim, a plain text editor, so that I can copy and paste the quotes into my blog posts, *and I read the entire book in my text editor.


Quotes

I could take over the universe with this army if I could ever get all their weapons pointed in the same direction.

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I’m sure we’d all rather be clever than brave.

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He was just a little villain. An old-fashioned craftsman, making crimes one-off. The really unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, or anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present–they are real.

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The unknown breeds dragons in map margins.

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