Some fish were jumping up the beach and into the tree, which struck me as an odd thing for a fish to do, but I tried not to be judgmental about it. I was feeling pretty raw about my own species, and n...
She shook her head in puzzlement.'You're very strange,' she said.'No, I'm very ordinary,' said Arthur,'but some very strange things have happened to me. You could say I'm more differed from than diffe...
Share and Enjoy' is the company motto of the hugely successful Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Complaints Division, which now covers the major land masses of three medium-sized planets and is the only...
Rob McKenna was a miserable bastard and he knew it because he'd had a lot of people point it out to him over the years and he saw no reason to disagree with them except the obvious one which was that...
Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep your...
Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers.
Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.
Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
Lemon??!!
It is of course perfectly natural to assume that everyone else is having a far more exciting time than you. Human beings, for instance, have a phrase that describes this phenomenon, ‘The other man’s g...
In the stillness, a fly would not have dared clear it's throat.
I remembered once, in Japan, having been to see the Gold Pavilion Temple in Kyoto and being mildly surprised at quite how well it had weathered the passage of time since it was first built in the four...
Holy Zarquon, did I ask for an existentialist elevator?
He inched his way up the corridor as if he would rather be yarding his way down it, which was true.
Ford was beginning to behave rather strangely, or rather not actually beginning to behave strangely but beginning to behave in a way that was strangely different from the other strange ways in which h...
Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying Blood...blood...blood...blood...
Fifteen years was a long time to be stranded anywhere, particularly somewhere as mind-boggingly dull as Earth.
Come on, he droned, I’ve been ordered to take you down to the bridge. Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me to take you down to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction? ’Cos I don’t.He...
Beppu (n.)The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.