Europe has achieved peaceful political union for the first time ever: They're using this unprecedented state of affairs to harmonize the curvature of bananas.
I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring cosmos – in which my existence was a random roll of the dice and I was destined to die and rot and then be gone forever – was...
I don’t mind going without clothes, but being without a microprocessor is truly stripping down. It’s like asking a sorcerer to surrender his magic wand, or a politician to forswear his lies.
Finally, they began to investigate the prime minister, Harold Wilson. Wilson, Wright was convinced, was a KGB agent. I’m nodding along like a metronome at this point. There was a group, a cabal if you...
But, as Andy pointed out, if being a smart-arse was an offence, the Laundry would not exist in the first place.
But otherwise it’s darkness, darkness, as far as the eye can see.
But his former day job—he is still a vicar, and his bishop is remarkably reluctant to raise a fuss about his apparent conscription by a secret government agency devoted to issues which can best be des...
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.
Reach into my travel bag and pull out my hacked Palm computer,
His beard is about thirty centimeters long, grizzled and salted and bifurcated. It has so much character that it’s probably being hunted by a posse of typographers.
Would you mind finding Eileen and asking her why she’s late? It doesn’t normally take her this long to terminate an employee.
We loved them individually so much that we betrayed them collectively.
WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES. In our youth, if we survive them, they’re called learning experiences or teachable moments or some-such. And that which does not maim or kill us usually makes us stronger, albeit...
They never tell you how heavy a corpse is in training school.
They fuck hard and fast at too many gees, his docking hectocotylus locked tight inside her launch adapter.
There are races that do not enslave, do not slay, do not war. There are races which do not lie or falsify. You think them weak? But they are among the strongest and finest denizens of the Will. They w...
The official Government Random Number Generator used for seeding new encryption keys is a thing of legend, running as it does on a type of punched paper tape that hasn’t been manufactured since the 19...
The male ego is a curious thing. It’s about the size of a small continent but it’s extremely brittle.
The knife-shaped thing sticking out of his throat is drinking greedily; one glance tells Johnny that the cop’s beyond help. There’s always a cost for using such occult weapons, and Johnny will pay it...
The informational density of the inner planets is visibly converging on Avogadro’s number of bits per mole, one bit per atom,