My favorite’s toxophilia, arousal from archery. You wouldn’t believe the poses people get into. Remember: one overnight bag, that’s it.
Let's see, we've got the Empress of Manticore, the President of the Republic of Haven, the Protector of Grayson, the chairman of the Beowulf Board of Directors, Queen Berry, and the Andermani emperor'...
Jaime Rivera gaped in disbelief as the cadreman took at least five direct hits and didn't go down. And then the trooper who should have been dead was coming straight at him, pistol in one hand and som...
It must come from your father's side of the family, Allison informed her with severe disapproval. You never got that sort of dreary, plebeian logic from my genes, dear! Beowulfans' cognitive processes...
If one of her officers needed reprimanding, she would attend to it in private, just as she made it a point to deliver praise in public.
Eleven men and women, exhausted, battered, and armed with captured weapons, against fifty battle-armored foes desperate to kill them. Every one of those eleven knew exactly what their odds of living t...
And if I’ve learned one thing over the years, it’s that when it comes down to raw emotion against reason, emotion wins.
And for the whole system to be healthy, all parts of it must enjoy equal freedoms. And the most fundamental of all those freedoms is this: that persons must be free to read, write, say, and think what...
Admiralty House was a modest structure, only a little over a hundred stories in height,
You should never ascribe to malice what can be put down to incompetence.
You people's departments
Clearly used captured data and documents, and the handful of broken, scarred human prisoners who’d been recovered from them had been interrogated with a casual, dispassionate brutality that was horrif...
Without love, there can be no true marriage; with love, there can be nothing else.
Victor smiled politely in return, the way someone smiles when they're thanked for having done a minor favor in times past. Held open a door in the rain, lent someone a small amount of money, butchered...
The only problem is, if you tell the yammerheads to shut their gobs, you don’t have real representation anymore. If everyone isn’t free to speak his mind, then, ultimately, no one is, and in the end,...
The bigger the lie, apparently, the more likely the uninformed were to accept it, simply because they couldn't believe any government would tell such an absurd story unless it were true.
People who made the Kingdom better than it dreamed it could be, made it live up to its ideals whether it wanted to or not, because they believed in those ideals and made others believe with them.
People at the apex felt unbridled contempt for the people who spent their lives laboring to support their betters in the style to which they had become accustomed. After all, if those lesser being had...
Na zlomeček věčnosti oběma lodím nic nebránilo ve volné střelbě na protivníka a v tom okamžiku dva různé počítače odstartovaly své palebné plány.Žádný lidský smysl nedokázal postřehnout, co se odehrál...
I wonder if treecats pray?