Our new allies are weak and unreliable and mean us ill. We need a new kind of arsenal if we are to defend democracy and freedom, and the first step in rebuilding our defenses is to build a hypercomput...
Martian invasion: sure, the Army understands what it needs to do, if not necessarily how to go about it. Religious apocalypses involving the Four Horsemen: pass the holy water and bend over, here it c...
Look, we know, now, that a singularity doesn’t turn into a voracious predator that eats all the dumb matter in its path, triggering a phase change in the structure of space—at least, not unless they’v...
LOOK, DO YOU really want a detailed description of two sex robots going at it like a pair of bonobos on day release from celibacy camp in front of an audience of jaded aristocrats?
Jim can’t tell if he was screaming from fear or yodeling in exhilaration.
It’s insane, but no more insane than Japan shutting down its entire nuclear reactor fleet in the middle of a heat wave because an extreme tsunami washed over one plant, or the USA invading a noninvolv...
In case you’re worried about BLUE HADES, Professoe O’Brien speaks the language and is qualified to Liase. She’s also completed her certification fixation on combat epistemology and can operate as your...
If he wakes the ancient sleeping horrors I am going to have to brief the private secretary and the Joint Intelligence Oversight Committee so that they can explain CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN to the COBRA Com...
By dawn on Sunday he had been awake for over thirty hours, tracking a crisis of ever-expanding but indeterminate scope. A large body of operational research demonstrates that human beings suffer dispr...
Are they by any chance a quiverfull ministry? Pete’s lips thin. Yes. The word quiverfull sets my alarm bells ringing, and clearly upsets Mo. It goes back to Psalm 127, which refers to having many chil...
Angleton is not to be trifled with. I don’t know anyone else currently alive and in the organization who could get away with misappropriating the name of the CIA’s legendary chief of counter-espionage...
All right. Panin sips at his wine. Excuse me, but—there is a personal connection? What? You appear unduly upset ... Yes. She looks at her hands. The missing officer is my husband. Panin puts his glass...
After a couple of years of death by bureaucratic snu-snu (too many committee meetings, too many tedious IT admin jobs)
AFTER WE DO THE WASHING-UP, I GET TO SPEND THE REST OF the evening reading FAQs on cat maintenance on the web. It takes about half an hour to come to the unwelcome realization that they’re almost as c...
A powerful glamour has engulfed the United States of America. It’s not the first time, of course—that nation is a shining temple to amnesia with its foundations built atop the bones of vanished empire...
Now my blood ran cold. Because if there’s one thing worse than an IT manager who’s feeling the chill wind of obsolescence blowing down his neck and consequently trying to contribute code to the reposi...
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