Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!
Fifteen minutes later I’m hunched over the steering wheel of a two-seater that looks like something you’d find in your corn flakes packet. The Smart is insanely cute and compact, does about seventy mi...
Executions are a form of human sacrifice, after all,
Did it have a name, this project? Yes. The books and posters are called MAGIC CIRCLE OF SAFETY, but she said I’d find it in the stacks under a very strange reference—KGB.2.YA—what’s so funny? Bob? Are...
By the way, what is that you’re working on? Software-configurable RAID grid. She pauses, a cable in each hand. Go on, your ride will be waiting. RAID grid being . . . ? Redundant Array of Interconnect...
But I had fallen among pirates and life insurance underwriters.
But I can’t be in three places at once! Tough, says Mo, and that shell-like expression cracks into a grin. You’re management now; isn’t it time you learned to delegate?
Bureaucracies excel at performing tasks that must be done consistently whether the people assigned to them are brilliant performers or bumbling fools. You can’t always count on having Albert Einstein...
As far as my fellow students go, I’m one of the two dangerous rebels who turned up in office casual; the rest are so desperately sober that if you could bottle them you could put the Betty Ford Clinic...
And because this is now a political problem, the usual political syllogism applies: (a) is a problem: Something Must Be Done, (b) is Something, Therefore (b) Must Be Done.
America is the place where you cannot kill your Government by killing the men who conduct it. The only way you can kill government in America is by making the men and women of America forget how to go...
Alas, yes. Unfortunately our little canary has gone Section 2 on us. He’s absolutely Upney;* halfway to Dagenham, in fact. We’re keeping him here because he’s not deemed a hazard to himself, but so fa...
The ads made me feel bilious and love-stricken, invaded and debauched by a coldly mechanical lust for whatever fetish the desire machines were pushing at their victims at any given instant.
Toma un puro, Sherlock.- Lo siento; sólo echo humo cuando me enchufan a la red eléctrica.
Wait—something’s gumming up Bosch. (Computers aren’t as powerful as most people think; running even a small and rather stupid intern can really bog down a server.)
The sacrificial repository at Arlington
The geas in question draws its power from the sum over time of the entire loyal British population’s faith in the Crown since that charter was established over four centuries ago. Which adds up to som...
The first law of demonology is that if you can see it, it can see you. But
Skeletal. It would hardly be unprecedented, don’t you think? So here’s your new assignment: you will establish a new agency, recruit agents, and direct them—I have a little list of those who won’t be...
Scientific research is a bottomless money pit. You can approximate Doing Science to standing on the Crack of Doom throwing banknotes down it by the double-handful, in the hope that if you choke the vo...