Did my ‘recruit profile’ mention that my anger-management issues might be linked to the tragic death of my father in a shit-factory explosion when I was ten months old? The
Con endoesqueletos accionados con servomotor.
Begin morning run, I said to Max. Bifrost track. The virtual gym vanished. Now I was standing on a semitransparent running track, a curved looping ribbon suspended in a starry nebula. Giant ringed pla...
You’re just dead, your brain stops working, and then you’re not around to ask annoying questions anymore.
You see, ever since the first day of kindergarten, I had been hoping and waiting for some mind-blowingly fantastic, world-altering event to finally shatter the endless monotony of my public education....
You really think it’s that simple? I said. That you can just write a check for two hundred and forty billion dollars and fix all the world’s problems?
Wolverines!
Where'd you get the coconuts?
What happens when you die? Well, we're not completely sure. But the evidence seems to suggest that nothing happens. You're just dead, your brain stops working, and then you're not around to ask annoyi...
We’d connected on a purely mental level.
We talked for hours. Long, rambling conversations about everything under the sun. Spending time with her was intoxicating. We seemed to have everything in common. We shared the same interests. We were...
The weapon had a built-in timer that would prevent it from firing for another twelve hours (a cooling-off period) (...).
The visor was light-years ahead of the clunky virtual-reality goggles available prior to that time, and it represented a paradigm shift in virtual-reality technology—as did the lightweight OASIS hapti...
The same goes for Marie Curie. Before she discovered radium, you can be certain she first discovered the little man in the canoe.
The prize for the Earthworld contest was the Talisman of Penultimate Truth.
The once-great country into which I’d been born now resembled its former self in name only. It didn’t matter who was in charge. Those people were rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic and everyone kn...
The hour draws near!
The guy had no sense of decorum.
That was when I realized, as terrifying and painful as reality can be, it’s also the only place where you can find true happiness.
Shin told me that the EDA spent decades engineering a special strain of weed that helps people focus and enhances their ability to play videogames! Once they had it perfected, that was when the govern...