How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph) or (Feed Chatter #.Paragraph)
Quote #1
Later after some showers we went to the Ricochet Lounge. It was very lo-grav/no-grav, and it was all about whamming one person into another in a bit stuffed suits. The place had been hip, like, a year and a half ago. The slogan was "Slam the Ones You Love!" Now the place just looked old and sad. The walls were all marked up from people hitting them. (2.9)
The Ricochet Lounge is some sort of like a super high-tech version of laser tag, but on the moon and with no gravity. So, basically awesome. If there's a good use for technology, lo-grav laser tag is definitely it.
Quote #2
Behind the girl in gray was a big window and you could see we were in a bubble way high up over the moon. Down on the ground, tourists were riding big proteins across the craters. All the stars were out. (3.7)
Huh. We're having a hard time getting a visual here, because how in the world you ride on a protein? Does that mean some of those steaks from the meat farm are romping around with people on their backs? Or people are zooming over those craters in glasses of milk? We have no clue, and really—it doesn't matter. The whole point is that it's high-tech, and that's enough.
Quote #3
And the feed was pouring in on us now, all of it, all of the feednet, and we could feel all of our favorites, and there were our files, and our m-chatlines. It came down on us like water. It came down like frickin' spring rains, and we were dancing in it. (17.27)
Titus compares the communication he's getting from his newly-restored feed with rain falling down on him and his friends. This shows us the extent to which technology has been intertwined with their lives: something completely unnatural (the feed) seems as natural—and as right—as rain.