Generations: A Science Fiction Mystery Thriller

Armitage shrugged. “I’m an engineer. We’re always optimists. Don’t you know that? You Archivists are the pessimist bunch.”

He’s improvising now. And by the looks of all the chaos that’s happening on the ship right now — he’s in panic.” I nodded. “And people in panic make mistakes.”

“I was once your age, you know. So I get it — the younger you are, the faster you expect a resolution to any problem. You jump in the ring for a fight — you try to win it in the first round. You start an investigation, you expect results by the next day. Your mind is simply color-blind to longer-term processes. You’ll see for yourself when you’ll h

“It means that regular operation, like adding a new record to the database, are carried out normally as in all the other nodes. However, operations that could alter previous data, such as DELETE or MODIFY requests, are recorded but not processed.” I nodded. “So all previous data records are kept intact, and the new data record is stored on top of t

in the end, in the moment of truth — it’s the people that matter, not the work.

Trust is transparency multiplied by time,

“There is never shame in one’s situation. Only in one’s actions.”

“Listen, Sandrine. Every once in a rare while, the need arises for a hero. You are that hero today.” “What if I don’t want to be a hero?” I whispered. “The real ones never do.”

“I still can’t tell if this girl is brilliant or plain obsessed with paranoia, but I feel her heart is in the right place.”