Brief notes on Lucifer Rising

p58 - It was as if he and his friends had always been there. Had always been there. / p168 - Wherever we land, people accept us. I think Cat's Cradle: Warhead did this stuff first, but in a more literary way; this is the first novel to make a point of it. I mainly mention it because Sky Pirates! picks up the ball and runs with it.

p166/167 - It's like seeing a snowball start to roll down a mountain. You know at the bottom it's going to be avalanche time. It's just novels in the shadows of waves all the way, isn't it? Unlike Human Nature and Set Piece, this is fictional history... but, then again, is it?

p257 - Fuck you, mother. Fuck you to hell and back.

p262 - Don't go off to Margate with Julian when he asks, 'cos when you come back, your dad'll be in hospital with a stroke, and he'll never wake up, and you'll wish you'd been with him for those last precious moments after all those years apart. RIP Ace's dad.

p267 - It's the golden rule, isn't it? See also Transit and Sky Pirates! But, more to the point, see the confrontation with Zebulon Pryce in Original Sin. And all those Nietzsche references.

p327 - Family's where, when you come back, they've got to take you in.

p329 - Where the TARDIS crew's ego boundaries dissolve. Agonistic to Timewyrm: Revelation and Love and War.

p339 - Something moved upon the face of the dark. In 1993 I read this through the prism of The Pit, but now I see it's a happy ending. There is mystery in the universe.