Si un escritor se pone muy enfermo, todo se detiene. Si se muere, su negocio se acaba para siempre. En este sentido, la carrera de un escritor popular se parece más a la de un famoso actor, pero hasta...
I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.
Look,’ said Tyrena. ‘In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion unit...
Le disgustaba morir, y no quería morir más de lo necesario.
Guile was no match for the world and that hubris would always be punished by the gods.
At that moment I would have welcomed spider-rats nibbling on my toes about as much as the idea of chatting with a missionary priest.
Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.
A society devoted to self-destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.
All good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.
In such seconds of decision entire futures are made
[The Void Which Binds] actual but unaccessible presence in our universe is one of the prime causes for our species elaborating myth and religion, for our stubborn, blind belief in extrasensory powers,...
No one wants to pay for a look at another person's angst.
The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation.
Tempus edax rerum.
People always pay a lot of money for things that make them stupid.
Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony.
Her eyes are open but she does not see.
—It is hard to die. Harder to live.
I know what cancer was. How is it like humankind?Sek Hardeen's perfectly modulated, softly accented tones showed a hint of agitation. We have spread out through the galaxy like cancer cells through a...
Colonel Fedmahn Kassad knew only that all the great passions of a passionate life had led him to this place and to this moment, and if death awaited him here, then so be it. And if love and glory and...