Author: James Rollins

Cites

• Robert F. Scott (1)
  • IN: Subterranean (1999) Fiction, Adventure, American
    EPIGRAPH: Great God! this is an awful place.
    FROM: Found scrawled in the journal of the failed South Pole Explorer, Robert F. Scott, (1912), Journal, UK
• W. B. Yeats (1)
  • IN: Altar Of Eden (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
    FROM: The Second Coming, (1920), Poem, Ireland
• H. G. Wells (1)
  • IN: Altar Of Eden (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.
    FROM: The Island of Doctor Moreau, (1896), Novel, UK
• Bible (3)
  • IN: Altar Of Eden (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
    FROM: Bible, Jeremiah 51:37, (-165), Bible, NULL
  • IN: The Blood Gospel (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon … Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood….
    FROM: Bible, Revelations 5:1–3, 9, (100), Bible, NULL
  • IN: Excavation (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
    FROM: Genesis 2:7, (-165), Bible, NULL
• NULL (4)
  • IN: Map of Bones (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The holy relics were granted to Rainald von Dassel, Archbishop of Cologne (1159–67), following Emperor Barbarossa’s sacking of the city of Milan. Such a treasure was granted to the German Archbishop for his aid and chancellorship in service to the current Emperor. Not all were content to see such a treasure leave Italy…not without a struggle.
    FROM: From L’histoire de la Sainte Empire Romaine (The History of the Holy Roman Empire), 1845, HISTOIRES LITTÉRAIRES, (1845), Book, Italy
  • IN: The Doomsday Key (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In the final persecution of the Holy Roman Catholic Church, there will reign Peter the Roman, who will feed his flock among many tribulations; after which the seven-hilled city will be destroyed and the dreadful Judge will judge the people.
    FROM: The Prophecy of Saint Malachy, (1139), Religious Text, NULL
  • IN: The Judas Strain (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Why the bubonic plague suddenly arose out of China’s Gobi desert during the Middle Ages and slew a third of the world’s population remains unknown. In fact, no one knows why so many plagues and influenzas of the last century — SARS, the Avian Flu — have arisen out of Asia. But what is known with fair certainty: the next great pandemic will arise again out of the East.
    FROM: United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Compendium of Infectious Diseases, May 2006, (2006), Book, US
  • IN: Ice Hunt (2003) Fiction, Suspense, Speculative fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Eskimo Village Vanishes! ARCHIVED RECORD: THE TORONTO DAILY STAR, NOVEMBER 23, 1937 ESKIMO VILLAGE VANISHES! RCMP Confirms Trapper’s Story Special to the Star, Lake Territory, November 23. The inspector for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police returned today to confirm the disappearance of an Eskimo village in the Northern Lakes region. Ten days ago, fur trapper Joe LaBelle contacted the RCMP to report a chilling discovery. While running a trapline, LaBelle snowshoed out to an isolated Eskimo village on the shores of Lake Anjikuni only to discover every inhabitant — man, woman, and child — had vanished from their huts and storehouses. “It was as if every one of them poor folk up and took off with no more than the shirts on their backs.” Inspector Pierre Menard of the RCMP returned with his team’s findings today and confirmed the trapper’s story. The village had indeed been found abandoned under most strange circumstances. “In our search, we discovered undisturbed foodstuff, gear, and provisions but no sign of the villagers. Not a single footprint or track.” Even the Eskimos’ sled dogs were found buried under the snow, starved to death. But the most disturbing discovery of all was reported at the end: the Eskimos’ ancestral graves were found excavated and emptied. The RCMP promises to continue the search, but for now the fate of the villagers remains a mystery.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Thomas Malthus (1)
  • IN: The Doomsday Key (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.
    FROM: An Essay on the Principle of Population, (1798), Essay, UK
• Nathan Baron Rothschild (1)
  • IN: The Doomsday Key (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The time to buy is when blood is running in the streets.
    FROM: Wealthiest man in the Nineteenth Century, (1815), NULL, Germany
• John F. Kennedy (1)
  • IN: Bloodline (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: On the existence and threat of modern-day secret societies: We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence… building a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.
    FROM: Speech given at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on April 27, 1961, (1961), Speech, US
• Abraham Lincoln (1)
  • IN: Bloodline (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Duke M. Giovanni (1)
  • IN: The Judas Strain (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The pestilence came first to the town of Kaffa on the Black Sea. There the mighty Mongolian Tartars waged siege upon the Italian Genoese, merchants and traders. Plague struck the Mongol armies with burning boils and bloody expulsions. Struck with great malice, the Mongol lords used their siege catapults to cast their diseased dead over the Genoese walls, and spread plague in a litter of bodies and ruin. In the year of the incarnation of the Son of God 1347, the Genoese fled under sail in twelve galleys back to Italy, to the port of Messina, bringing the Black Death to our shores.
    FROM: Duke M. Giovanni (1356), trans. by Reinhold Sebastien in Il Apocalypse (Milan: A. Mondadori, 1924), 34–35, (1356), Book, Italy
• Charles Darwin (1)
  • IN: Black Order (2006) Thriller, American
    EPIGRAPH: The fact that evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory— is it then a science or faith?
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Thomas Jefferson (1)
  • IN: The Devil Colony (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Science is my passion, politics, my duty.
    FROM: Letter to Harry Innes, 1791, (1791), Letter, US
• T. S. Eliot (1)
  • IN: The Blood Gospel (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I am Lazarus, come from the dead, Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all.
    FROM: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, (1915), Poem, UK
• Albert Einstein (3)
  • IN: The Eye of God (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
    FROM: Letter to the family of Michele Besso, (1955), Letter, US/Germany
  • IN: The Bone Labyrinth (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US/Germany
  • IN: Black Order (2006) Thriller, American
    EPIGRAPH: Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
    FROM: Science and Religion, (1941), Essay, US/Germany
• Carl Sagan (1)
  • IN: The 6th Extinction (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
    FROM: The Varieties of Scientific Experience, (2007), Book, US/Germany
• Isaac Asimov (1)
  • IN: The Bone Labyrinth (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Socrates (1)
  • IN: The Last Oracle (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The greatest blessings granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
    FROM: On the Oracle of Delphi, (None), NULL, Greece
• Adolf Hitler (1)
  • IN: Black Order (2006) Thriller, American
    EPIGRAPH: Who says I am not under the special protection of God?
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Germany