The rich smell of life uneaten.
Starships are all work and no fun.
One of my earliest recollections is being woken up at some ungodly hour in the morning by my parents and sat in front of the fairly new black and white television, watching a grainy image of a man in...
You can’t learn from a fatal mistake.
One of the quirkier cognitive disorders to which software project management is prone.
I stared at him. You’re a , Rudi! She’s a mermaid. What you thinking?
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...
Private ownerships of a ...slave chip is illegal in many polities. It tends to be a government monopoly, much like other forms of violence. But I had fallen among pirates and life insurance underwrite...
Not our circus, not our monkeys, I murmur, and he nods.
Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.
For programming is a job where Lovecraft meets tradecraft, all the time.
A historian who works for a bank: That’s not the most likely background for someone who capers around the cosmos having adventures, is it?
[...] Howard Phillips Lovecraft of Providence, Rhode Island, for cultivating a florid and overblown prose style that covered the entire spectrum from purple to ultraviolet and took sixteen volumes of...
When a customer clicks through the license conditions to play the game, they’re agreeing to add their phone as a node in a distributed server. More players equal more servers—not for themselves, I mig...
To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that every insterstellar colony in search of good fortune must be in need of a banker.
Georgina darts forward, grabs my hand, and pumps it up and down while peering at my face as if she’s wondering why water isn’t gushing from my mouth.
Christmas: the one time of year when you can’t avoid the nuts in your family muesli.
Since the draw-down in forces triggered by the 2010 defense review, the units the Laundry can draw upon have been depleted. There are now just two SAS squadrons, 120 men in total, to cover all conting...
One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time.