Are you a psychiatrist? I don’t think so. He shuffles forward, heading towards a side bay that, as I approach it, turns out to be a day room of some sort. Then I’m not Napoleon Bonaparte!
Apocalypses are easier slept through than experienced.
Anyway, you don’t have to be terribly intelligent to complete a PhD, Karim grumps. You just need to be stupidly persistent. If anything, being too smart gets in the way—
And convincing someone that an outrageous ritual has caused them to forget the constitutional bedrock of their society is hard.
American cops are so heavily militarized these days that the only way I can tell the difference between them and the army is the color of their body armor—that, and the army is less trigger-happy.
That was when the sprint on vampirism had been proposed and unanimously actioned as an emergency spike.)
★★The geas Billington’s running. It’s the occult equivalent of a stateful firewall. It keeps out intruders, unless they run through the approach states in a permitted sequence.
¿Es que no saben que el único ordenador inhackeable es el que tiene instalado un sistema operativo seguro y está encerrado en una caja fuerte de acero enterrada bajo una tonelada de hormigón en el fon...
There’s a point at which sufficient incompetence is malice.
Friend of mine who was turned down
You want to know what it’s like to emigrate to Saturn system? Imagine spending six years in a straitjacket tied to the outside of a skyscraper, with only a couple dozen similar lunatics for company.
You take after your dad, a high-functioning sociopath with an incurable organic personality disorder. It’s one of the special-sauce variety, the kind with a known genetic cause. Your uncle Albert was...
Within the shielded darkness of the President’s limousine a geas unlocks in my head, and I can finally remember the message the PM wants me to convey to his counterpart
What are the consequences when the government, the media, and the leaders of commerce all speak with one voice? Why, it means that if you hold opinions other than the ones you are told to, you are out...
Was failure to make tenure track justification for an honor killing?
Twelve percent of all the photographs ever taken in human history have been taken in the last twelve months. And 40 percent of them are on Facebook.
Twas the night before Christmas, the office was closed,The transom was shut, the staff home in repose;The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,But St. Nicholas won’t be coming because this is...
This is a joke. Right? I’m pointing at the green-screen terminal on the desk, and the huge dial-infested rotary phone beside it.No sir. Bill clears his throat. Unfortunately the NDO’s office budget wa...
There’s a faint popping noise, and the entire wall of the incident room shifts to the colour of the night sky above a Japanese city.
There are one and a half billion Muslims on this Earth. A billion and a half Chinese communists, a billion Indian Hindu elephant-worshippers. One point two billion Catholics, misled by the Vatican. An...