Who knows? It’s a long shot, but it just might work.
The encapsulated bird your conspirators sent you to fetch. The sterilized male chicken with the Creator DNA sequences. The plot capon. Where is it?
One moment you’re cruising along effortlessly at thirty thousand feet while the cabin crew slosh the whisky around in business class, the next you’re in a screaming death-spiral with flames pouring fr...
Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence or overwork?
I’m not a morning person, I just do my best worrying when I should be asleep.
Loose lips don’t merely sink ships, they summon krakens with too many tentacles.
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.
The morning after her date with her nerdishly cute prince of darkness, Cassie is scheduled for a lecture at nine o’clock. She blows it off because life’s too short and anyway the world is going to end...
Some people you just do not want to leave outside the tent pissing in, and in my early twenties, self-confident and naïve, I was about as safe to leave lying around unsupervised as half a ton of sweat...
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that every interstellar colony in search of good fortune must be in need of a banker.
Brains mouses over one of the images.
MINUS TEN POINTS FOR PUBLIC NUDITY.
Look. I pointed. Shin-Tethys as a whole maintains a positive trade surplus with the rest of the system. A third of the local nations don’t export directly, but there’s a lot of internal, intramural tr...
Jupiter is a gibbous streaky horror riding across the zenith of the night black sky—it
Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown.
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...
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...
This has serveral consequences, starting with screwing over most cryptography algorithms--translation: all your bank account are belong to us
Some knowledge is inherently corrupting,