Dagorath was a word in Sindarin, the Elvish language J. R. R. Tolkien had created for The Lord of the Rings.
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Capitalism would inch forward, without my actually having to interact face-to-face with another human being. Which was exactly how I preferred it, thank you.
But you do realize that nearly half the people on this planet are starving, right? I detected no malice in her voice. She sounded like she genuinely believed I might not be aware of this fact. Yes, I...
É preciso deixar um pouco mais difícil essa conquista, para que a vitória fácil demais não desmereça o preço.
Whenever I watched a Star Wars film, I found myself wondering how the Empire had the technology to make long-distance holographic phone calls between planets light-years apart, and yet no one had figu...
Species is capable of existing peacefully within the Sodality, the Envoy said. It was initiated when your probe first discovered the swastika on Europa’s surface. We selected a symbol that your cultur...
List. Douglas Adams. Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gai...
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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....
Valószínűleg foglalkoztat a kérdés, hogy mi lesz veled. Erre könnyű a válaszolni. Ugyanaz történik majd veled, mint minden egyes emberrel, aki valaha élt. Meg fogsz halni. Mind meghalunk. Ez van. Hog...
The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have been telling one another for thousands of years. We made it all up. Like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.
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 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...
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...
She used to make me wear earplugs at night so I wouldn’t hear her in the next room, talking dirty to tricks in other time zones.
Sempre que via o sol, eu me lembrava de que estava olhando para uma estrela. Uma entre mais de cem bilhões de estrelas em nossa galáxia. Uma galáxia que era apenas uma entre bilhões de outras galáxias...
Says you, assface. It has some great moments. No, I said, shaking my head. It doesn’t. It’s even worse than that first Ewok flick, Caravan of Courage. They shoulda called it Caravan of Suck.
Over the past five years, I’d worked my way down the entire recommended gunter reading list. Douglas Adams. Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pra...