Robert Charles Wilson Quote

His fertility cycles meant little to him. In his lifetime, he knew, he might make only one or two real contributions to the City's genetic continuity, his viral gametes combining with others in the bodies of the night feeders to become morphologically active. It was abstractly pleasing, though, to realize he had cast his own essence into the ocean of probability, where it might come floating back unknown to him, as a fresh citizen with new and unique ideas and odors.


Chapter 33 (p. 358) - Blind Lake (2003)


His fertility cycles meant little to him. In his lifetime, he knew, he might make only one or two real contributions to the City's genetic...

His fertility cycles meant little to him. In his lifetime, he knew, he might make only one or two real contributions to the City's genetic...

His fertility cycles meant little to him. In his lifetime, he knew, he might make only one or two real contributions to the City's genetic...

His fertility cycles meant little to him. In his lifetime, he knew, he might make only one or two real contributions to the City's genetic...