There's a reason I've always relied on you for the necessary political miracles, Emily, Hamish told her with a smile. Give me a fleet problem, or a naval battle to fight, and I know exactly what to do...
Roaring Deeps,
Fail not in this charge at your peril.
Com screen.
It’s much more comfortable to cling to your bigotry than it is to admit you’ve been wrong to feel it in the first place,
Than he expects. But it's a purely brute force approach
In some sort of mad spasm of suicidal fury.
Genocidal attack had punched inward past Crestwell to take out three of the Federation’s fourteen major extra-Solar star systems, with one hundred percent civilian casualties. But
She really should be careful about imputing sordid motives to the First Lord. Not because she doubted that he had them, but because not even Sir Edward Janacek could have only sordid motivations. That...
I've made a complete duplicate of my files. Technically, they're not supposed to leave my office, but I would be very grateful if you'd take them to Old Earth with you. I'd feel much happier with some...
Alban looked thoughtful for a moment, her blue eyes intent on something only she could see, then returned her attention to the admiral.
You will abide by justice, by keeping faith with that which you know is right. You will do justice not in the heat of battle or the white fury of your anger, be that anger ever so justified. You will...
Overtures from a cold-blooded consideration of advantages to an emotional rejection based on their own bigotry. And if I've learned one thing over the years, it's that when it comes down to raw emotio...
One of the first signs of a self-destructing aboriginal culture always seems to be an increase in the use of drugs and intoxicants,
We maintain heading until he's committed, then I want a hardskew-turn to starboard. As hard as you can make it, Chief. I want our starboard broadside on him as he passes below us, and then I want to...
Victimology’s all about emotions and finding someone—anyone—else to blame for your situation. And of course, that ‘someone’ has to’ve done it out of pure malevolence! After all, you’re the victim, the...
This just gets worse and worse, Rob Pierre sighed as he skimmed Leonard Boardman's synopsis of his latest gleanings from the Solarian League reporters covering the PRH. How can one person—one person,...
TFNS Swiftsure moved to position herself between the planet whose human colonists had named it Crestwell’s World and the mammoth armada bearing down upon
Stupidity and bigotry are their own worst enemies,
If you ever mention my uncle to me again, I will personally push your face through the top of this table, Elizabeth told him in a flat, deadly tone, and the baron recoiled physically from her.