Birds and airfish, singly and in vast flocks that dimmed the sun, filled the spaces between the ocean and the clouds, lazily trailing one long wing across the brief smooth curvings between the waves b...
Was Fergus Urvill anywhere, still? Apart from the body - whatever was left of him physically, down there in that dark, cold pressure - was there anything else? Was his personality intact somehow, some...
A federated disgust, a galaxy of scorn. Us with our busy, busy little lives, finding no better way to pass our years than in competitive disdain.
Everything about us, everything around us, everything we know and can know of is composed ultimately of patterns of nothing; that’s the bottom line, the final truth. So where we find we have any contr...
It must be a burden, not even being able to say you were just obeying orders. Well, that is always a lie, or a sign you are fighting for an unworthy cause, or still have a very long way to develop civ...
Part of the training of a Special Circumstances agent was learning a) that the rules were supposed to be broken sometimes, b) just how to go about breaking the rules, and c) how to get away with it, w...
The rich just bribe their way out. So yes, as far as the rulers are concerned, it works.
Happily, I am not human, Parinherm thought, and this is only a simulation.
One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve.
The way to a man’s heart is through his chest!
My name,’ she said. ‘Is Rasd-Coduresa Diziet Embless Sma da’ Marenhide.
Vos vaisseaux se croient intelligents et conscients ! gloussa Hamin.C'est aussi une erreur assez communément répandue parmi certains de nos compatriotes humains.
She'd asked him what it was like to be in there, doing nothing but then being woken up to speak to somebody you couldn't see. He'd said that it was like being woken from a deep and satisfying sleep, t...
Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change... If you disable change, if you effectively stop time, if you prevent the...
[...] there was a relief in not being listened to, sometimes. Power meant responsibility. Advice unacted upon almost always have been right
Patience can be a means of letting matters mature to a proper state for action, not just a way of letting time slip away.
Oh, adjust yourself. You people have spent ten millennia playing at soldiers while becoming ever more dedicated civilians. We've spent the last thousand years trying hard to stay civilian while refini...
Nice people who are beginning to live to a great age - as it were - react with such revulsion to the burgeoning horrors that confront them, they generally prefer suicide. It's only us slightly malevol...
Us with our busy, busy little lives, finding no better way to pass our years than in competitive disdain. And what the Idirans
Well, the voice said, seemingly oblivious, one thing that does happen when you live a long time is that you start to realise the essential futility of so much that we do, especially when you see the s...
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