Characteristics Of Impeccable Reeve
This BOOK IS AMAZING!!! More people need to read this, and witness how impeccable Reeve's writing is. How incredible the world he weaves is. And how human, his approach to science fiction is, and that I think, is the most beautiful part of this novel.
"The K in K-gate stands for KH, which stands for "Kwisatz Haderech," which means "the shortening of the way" in one of the languages of Old Earth. Only the Guardians know how it works. You step aboard a train, and the train goes through a K-gate, and you step off on another planet, where the sun that was shining on you a moment ago is now just one of those tiny stars in the sky. It might take ten thousand years to travel that far by spaceships, but a K-train makes the jump in seconds. You can't
"The K in K-gate stands for KH, which stands for "Kwisatz Haderech," which means "the shortening of the way" in one of the languages of Old Earth. Only the Guardians know how it works. You step aboard a train, and the train goes through a K-gate, and you step off on another planet, where the sun that was shining on you a moment ago is now just one of those tiny stars in the sky. It might take ten thousand years to travel that far by spaceships, but a K-train makes the jump in seconds. You can't