Cyberpunk Scifi Quotes

Alex thrust her hand and half her arm into the labyrinth of light.
Her stare blanked, and in the halo of the matrix her eyes and glyphs blazed so radiantly she looked as if she were being consumed by a primordial fire.

"She just stuck her hand into Machim Command's central server matrix!"

Caleb smiled, watching on in blatant awe. "She does that. ~ G.S. Jennsen

2 SECONDS

He was on her in an instant to brace her against the wall. She kicked and clawed at her unseen attacker, skin and irises ablaze in caustic gold.

She fired anew, and the point-blank shot broke through his defenses, grazing his hip. He ignored the harsh sting to bring his Daemon up between them.

1 SECOND ~ G.S. Jennsen

The alien reached out her hands to hold Alex's tightly. "Please. Some of what I want to express, it may be difficult to locate the right words."

"Of course."

Pure alabaster eyes stared back at her. "Child, there is a hole in your mind. ~ G.S. Jennsen

It had been bound to happen. If anything, technology created a space for the strange and the afraid. Some would argue that the environment had created those people, but I doubted that. Those who flocked to technology as a place to hide and to fit in would have found something else, but instead they found another life. ~ J.P. Carver

Her perception was propelled backward, as if it were being pulled into a vortex. She slammed into her body, and her eyes flew open with a gasp.

"Alex?"

She sat straight up in the chair and grabbed Caleb by the shoulders. "We have to save them. ~ G.S. Jennsen

It was true. Nothing was ever lost. And nothing was ever forgotten, no matter how painful. The city was like a heart that way. She had four chambers, too. She had arteries that led in and out. She kept things moving. She kept the oxygen flowing in and out, in and out, clean for dirty, dirty for clean, the filthy midnight whispers for the purest morning prayers ~ Jason Heller

He holds her with the strength of a million-man army, but with all the tenderness of her heart lying naked in the palms of his hands. ~ Laura Kreitzer

They're only askin' you to do one thing. From what Rogue says, you ain't exactly reluctant."
"F**k myself into a coma. Sure, I can do that. Then what?"
"Uh, wait an hour? ~ Michelle O'Leary

You have business and pleasure to attend to. As an expert in both, allow me to advise you to put them aside for the next ten minutes. Why?

"Because the world is about to transform, and you will want to be able to say you saw it happen. The axes of our little universe are about to flip, and you'll want to get your magboots set. ~ G.S. Jennsen

Science Fiction: Any scientific acclaim that omits God. ~ Johnny Hart

It was so easy to be you. And to lack and want were the complete opposite: hard, cold, unrelenting, and hollow. ~ Cindy Pon

I was able to bring the souls from the past back to life.-Amaranth ~ Carolina Cody Aldaz

I think they are a better race than humans ever were. ~ Angelo Tsanatelis

The beautiful creatures are often the most dangerous," she murmured. ~ Cindy Pon

what is genuine emotion and what is business strategy. The modern condition. ~ Steven Kotler

We have a very short window in which to accomplish a great deal, one measured in minutes rather than hours.

"We succeed, and we will have freed dozens of galaxies and species from tyranny. We succeed, and we will have saved our home, our friends and our loved ones from the looming threat of annihilation. We succeed, and everyone has a future. So let's get it done. ~ G.S. Jennsen

This is what it meant to be a you, to have. To be genetically cultivated as a perfect human specimen before birth - vaccinated and fortified, calibrated and optimized. ~ Cindy Pon

It looks like you are trying to escape utter annihilation. Would you like some assistance?" - WEST ~ Sabrina Zbasnik

Not much of a childhood, Cass. When did you get to play?"
With a frown, she said, "I played."
"You took apart your robot dog. ~ Michelle O'Leary

Level-1 or world space is an anthropomorphically scaled, predominantly vision-configured, massively multi-slotted reality system that is obsolescing very rapidly.

Garbage time is running out.

Can what is playing you make it to level-2? ~ Nick Land

This time they picked up their hand luggage and moved away from their son, following Lieges towards the air-van. But instead of changing his stance, Alain Pen just dug in hull-down. "They won't go without me," he told Morley confidently. "So what are you really up to, eh? I know we're not going to Bull Crater on holiday."
"You've got a vivid imagination, kid."
"Stop calling me kid," Alain objected. "I know something's going on and I've reported it to my section leader. ~ Andrew R. Williams

This is the Rock, sweetheart," the owner added. "There's no tragedy you can't profit from. ~ Henry Mosquera

Colour began staining the sky, breathing life into the deathly shadows of dawn. ~ Ronel Van Tonder

I think it means that everyone is necessary. As long as a person finds some way to contribute to society, it doesn't matter which task he chooses. We're all important. ~ S.L. Wallace

Trust me, there are things in this mountain that will make your jaw bounce off the floor. ~ Jaleigh Johnson

Anything but chicken, and some honesty on the side, please. ~ S.L. Wallace

The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. ~ Douglas Adams

The ceiling shattered, and the vacuum created yanked her into the air. Her face grazed a shard of the ceiling as it broke off. Then she was in space.

Her left hand unlatched the breather mask and slid it on while her right felt for the helmet trigger.

Her finger slipped past it, fumbled back for it.

Found it.

Pressed it. ~ G.S. Jennsen

Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe. ~ Paul Di Filippo

Two encounters in the deepest space. The first terrifying enough; the second far too terrifying for those involved. ~ Matt Suddain

There were differences between memories and dreams. He had only dreams of things he had wanted to do, while Lespere had memories of things done and accomplished. And this knowledge began to pull Hollis apart, with a slow, quivering precision. ~ Ray Bradbury

Destiny spelled out in a constellation of cheap chrome. ~ William Gibson

There is no brightness without darkness. There is no body without its shadow. ~ Jessica Khoury

I feel something else break through the numbness. Something raw. Something primal. Something visceral. ~ Sam A. Patel