Besides, now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical televangelists.
Besides, now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical televangelists. I
Не важно, какая партия там у руля - эти люди всё равно занимаются перестановкой шезлонгов на палубе Титаника, и все это прекрасно осознают.
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...
Was very special. It was impossible not to fall in love with her. He smiled at me. You know what it’s like to meet someone like that, don’t you?
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...
Realized that we already did know each other, as well as any two people could. We’d known each other for years, in the most intimate way possible. We’d connected on a purely mental level. I understood...
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...
Flash of silver as the craft streaked laterally
All dressed in mid-1980s attire. A woman with a giant ozone-depleting hairdo bobbed her head to an oversize Walkman. A
Against the velvet rope force fields that kept everyone without an invitation at bay. As I walked toward the entrance, the crowd bombarded me with a mix of insults, autograph requests, death threats,...
Year after year, my eyes would scan the lunchroom like a T-1000, searching for a clique that might accept me.
When it came to my research, I never took any shortcuts. Over the past five years, I’d worked my way down the entire recommended gunter reading list. Douglas Adams. Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Ric...
We sat there awhile, holding hands, reveling in the strange new sensation of actually touching one another.
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 ability to mute my peers was one of my favorite things about attending school online, and I took advantage of it almost daily.
Standing there, under the bleak fluorescents of my tiny one-room apartment, there was no escaping the truth. In real life, I was nothing but an antisocial hermit. A recluse. A pale-skinned pop culture...
Standing on the left side of the runway was my battle-worn X-wing fighter. Parked on the right side was my DeLorean. Sitting on the runway itself was my most frequently used spacecraft, the Vonnegut....
Shit! I heard Diehl shout over the comm. I just lost my gorram shields because I’m already out of frakkin’ power! Dude, Cruz said. You shouldn’t mix swears from different universes. Says who? Diehl sh...
Seguí torturándome mentalmente hasta que, al fin, el sueño me venció.