Ameliorative. He climbed
Words are the supreme objects. They are minded things.
Why . . . she begins. Why do you want to climb it?Because it’s there.
Want to talk about Shakespeare's sonnets? asked Orphu of Io.Are you shitting me? The moravecs loved the ancient human colloquial phrases, the more scatological the better.Yes, said Orphu. I am most de...
There were strict laws protecting card privacy but laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.
There is something about raising a child that helps to sharpen one's sense of what is real.
The young remember most deeply
The sculptor Pete Garcia is found in his studio … and in his bedroom … and in the yard beyond.
The poem celebrated love and loyalty but teetered on the brink of nihilism with its constant thread of corruption through love of power, human ambition and intellectual
The only true voyage, the only Fountain of Youth, recited Orphu, would be found not in traveling to strange lands but in having different eyes, in seeing the universe with the eyes of another person,...
The day is perfect and I hate it for being so.
The Zen Gnostics claim forty billion followers, he rumbled. But what kind of religion is that, eh? No churches. No priests. No holy books. No concept of sin. Dur
The Shrike stepped closer. Silenus’s hand twitched, lifted the pen again, and wrote across the empty lower margin of his last page: IT IS TIME, MARTIN. He stared at what he had written, stifling the u...
The Consul dozed, snapping awake each time with a sense of falling, hands gripping the edge of the rigid hawking mat. He realized that he should have tied himself in with the single rope he had brough...
That’s all! Now either leave us alone or join us as a father rather than a receiver of sacrifices. You have the choice of Abraham!
Spenser Reynolds began telling about his next project—an attempt to have suicides coordinate their leaps from bridges on a score of worlds while the All Thing watched—and Tyrena Wingreen-Feif stole al...
Soon she would have to wake, tend the fire, serve the men, care for the younger children, and face the end of a childhood she had barely known. Soon she would become the property of a man other than h...
Sono ancora convinto che vi siano luoghi troppo malvagi perché sia consentito loro di esistere. Di tanto in tanto, sogno nubi atomiche a forma di fungo che levano su una città, e figure umane che danz...
Sol Weintraub suddenly understood perfectly why Abraham had agreed to sacrifice Isaac, his son, when the Lord commanded him to do so. It was not obedience. It was not even to put the love of God above...
Siri whispered an answer to my unasked question. No, Merin, one is never really too old. At least not too old to want the warmth and closeness. You decide, my love. I will be content either way. I dec...