The sight suddenly drove home the fantastic isolation of the place.
The hour or so after I woke up was my least favorite part of each day, because I spent it in the real world. This was when I dealt with the tedious business of cleaning and exercising my physical body...
The ability to mute my peers was one of my favorite things about attending school online, and I took advantage of it almost daily.
The Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation was a big place.
The OASIS would ultimately change the way people around the world lived, worked, and communicated.
The Europans were building an armada, just like the Sobrukai. But much closer to Earth. They had Foundry Ships orbiting their moon, cranking out fighters and drones—just like those I’d spotted above S...
Probably because I couldn’t bear the idea that the girl with whom I was virtually smitten might actually be some middle-aged dude named Chuck, with back hair and male-pattern baldness.
Peu importaient les responsables au pouvoir, ils se contentaient de modifier l'agencement des transats sur le pont du Titanic, et personne ne se faisait d'illusions.
Patsy
Parzival: Farewell, Art3mis. Sweet dreams.
Ninguém no mundo consegue o que quer e isso é bonito.
Like most gunters, I voted to reelect Cory Doctorow and Wil Wheaton (again). There were no term limits, and those two geezers had been doing a kick-ass job of protecting user rights for over a decade.
I’d only just learned the term gallows humor a few months earlier, from a book we’d been assigned in American Literature about the Civil War. At the time, it wasn’t a type of humor I thought I would e...
I was going off the rails on a crazy train. You could practically hear Ozzy screaming All aboard! Don
I understood her, trusted her, and loved her as a dear friend. None of that had changed, or could be changed by anything as inconsequential as her gender, or skin color, or sexual orientation.
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 figured out how to make a remote-controll...
Finally, I want to thank all of the writers, filmmakers, actors, artists, musicians, programmers, game designers, and geeks whose work I’ve paid tribute to in this story. These people have all enterta...
Eres inteligente. Y tienes cojones. Dos cualidades que admiro mucho.
Era demasiado raro incluso para los raros.
Earth Defense Alliance ships were outfitted with reverse-engineered alien technology, including a Trägheitslosigkeit Field Generator, which created a small inertia-cancellation field around a spacecra...