You stay with her. I’ll follow it in.
Words are the supreme objects. They are minded things.
We’ve been stuck in one species since our Cro-Magnon ancestors helped to wipe out the smarter Neanderthals, she said. Now it’s our chance to diversify rapidly, and institutions like the Hegemony, the...
We all retreat into ourselves in some way.
The captain of HMS Terror often thought that he knew nothing about the future - other than that his ship and Erebus would never again steam or sail - but then he reminded himself of one certainty: whe...
Nothing could be done about it—every human above the lowest Dregs’ Hive poverty class had a comlog with biomonitor, many had implants, and each of these was tuned to the music of the datasphere, monit...
It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.
Il genoma umano, l’anima umana, diffida dell’omogeneità, Raul. È sempre pronto a cogliere al volo l’occasione, a correre il rischio del cambiamento e della diversità.
If there really was a goddess like Sedna who ruled the world, her real name was Bitch Irony.
I meant only to point out that in hopelessness there is always hope.
Father Lenar Hoyt stepped away from the wall where he had been leaning, raised his right hand with thumb and little finger touching, three fingers raised, the gesture somehow including himself as well...
Even as he watched, a star moved above the limb of the planet, laser weapons winked their ruby morse
Eagles are extinct, grumbled Morpurgo. Perhaps they should have attacked the sky. It betrayed them.
Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.
Did you see any of us there? Kassad said nothing for more than a minute. The soft sounds of the river and the ship’s rigging suddenly seemed very loud. Finally Kassad took a breath. Yes. Silence stret...
Accidents are like death. Waiting for us everywhere. Inevitable. Unavoidable. Plan as we might, they defy our planning.
So many important things pass quickly without being understood at the time. So many powerful moments are buried beneath the absurd
There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.
Когда имеешь дело с дураками, спустя какое-то время начинаешь понимать ход их мыслей.
Will. I swear I will.