It is a truth universally acknowledged, that every interstellar colony in search of good fortune must be in need of a banker.
Pivoted the results on our Criminal Records Bureau and National Insurance database mirrors to get the place of work for everyone who’s on the books, and the pre-processor is turning that into grid ref...
This has serveral consequences, starting with screwing over most cryptography algorithms--translation: all your bank account are belong to us
And that the seeds of evil usually germinated in the footprints of people who knew how everybody else ought to behave and felt the need to tell them so.
Starships are all work and no fun.
I spent six hours becoming one with a shrubbery last night. There were three cloudbursts and a rain of small and very confused frogs
Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.
Although I am unconvinced that I desire life, I am not yet ready to embrace death.
Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown.
Corruption is defined in narrow terms to nail the poor deluded fool who slips a £20 note inside the cover of their passport before handing it to the Border Force officer who is checking travel documen...
We still have cultural attachés? We still have pulse-dialing electromechanical Strowger telephone exchanges in the basement—Lockhart startles me by suddenly rattling off the correct but decades-obsole...
The rich smell of life uneaten.
Not our circus, not our monkeys, I murmur, and he nods.
Jupiter is a gibbous streaky horror riding across the zenith of the night black sky—it
If they’re smart enough to be useful they get ideas about making themselves indispensable—ideas about getting above their station, as you Brits would put it. If they’re too dumb to be useful they’re a...
Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness, Aineko says with a theatrical sigh. You're as stupid as it's possible for an intelligent species to be - there being no evolutionary pressur...
First and most importantly, death is just the absence of life—oh, and for human beings, the absence of consciousness, too, but not just the absence of consciousness, the absence of the capacity for co...
Everything is terrorism these days: downloading, uploading, jaywalking with intent to cause fear.
★ ★★What is this eigenplot you keep talking about?★★ I ask. I’m dangerously close to whining. I really hate it when everyone else around me seems to know more about what’s going on than I do. ★★The ge...
¡Policía genética! ¡Usted, expulsado ahora mismo del acervo genético!