You don’t need to sell me on anything, Wade, she said. You’re my best friend. My favorite person. With
You could shove it up your ass and pretend you’re a corn dog.
Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star.
We blasted out of the crater and rocketed around the moon’s opposite side, and the fragile Earth became visible to us once again, hovering in the blackness ahead. Over the comm channel, I heard my fat...
This is your QComm, he explained. It’s a Quantum Communicator—basically a smartphone with unlimited range. It will work anywhere in the world—or in outer space. He smiled. They also have insanely fast...
There was no downtime between calls, because there were always several hundred morons in the call queue, all of them willing to wait on hold for hours to have a tech rep hold their hand and fix their...
The same goes for Marie Curie. Before she discovered radium, you can be certain she first discovered the little man in the canoe. It
Students weren’t allowed to use their avatar names while they were at school. This was to prevent teachers from having to say ridiculous things like Pimp_Grease, please pay attention! or BigWang69, wo...
She did it to get the extra food vouchers from the government every month. Most of the time, I had to find food on my own.
Our hands evolved to grip tools, all right—including our own. You see, thinkers, inventors, and scientists are usually geeks, and geeks have a harder time getting laid than anyone. Without the built-i...
Not only was this the first time a girl had ever given me her card, it was also, by far, the coolest contact card I had ever seen. This is, by far, the coolest contact card I have ever seen, I said. T...
I quickly lost track of time. I forgot that my avatar was sitting in Halliday’s bedroom and that, in reality, I was sitting in my hideout, huddled near the electric heater, tapping at the empty air in...
I never wanted to return to the real world. Because the real world sucked. I
I need to tell you one last thing before I go. Something I didn't figure out for myself until it was too late. I created the oasis because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to...
I gave her another salute—then, like a goofball, I pretended to poke myself in the eye as I did, just to hear the sound of her laugh.
Helpful Help-desk Incorporated took millions of calls a day, from all over the world, 24-7, 365. One angry, befuddled cretin after another. There was no down time between the calls because there were...
Glenmorangie. On the rocks.
Elhagyni az otthonunkat súlyosan túlértékelt cselekvés.
El Riesgo Siempre Vive
At first, I couldn't understand why the media was making such a big deal of the billionaire's death. After all, the people of Planet Earth had other concerns. The ongoing energy crisis. Catastrophic c...