Gurgeh felt grateful and cosseted, and both important and foolish, all at once.
Even as a raft, of course, it could have been made from gold, or any element with a molecular number lower than mercury. Lead would still sink in mercury, but gold shouldn’t. It was one number down th...
Division was the only order.
Long sweeping swathes of darkly torrential rain.
What is any achievement, however great it was, once time itself is dead? Of
There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.
The old male drew himself up as though getting ready to go. I hate romantics, Quilan. They do not really know themselves, but what is worse they do not really want to know themselves—or, ultimately, a...
The drone told him one in ten of the people he passed on the street would be treated for mental illness at some point in their lives. The figure was higher for males than for apices, and higher for fe...
The black bird Gravious made to settle on her shoulder; she shooed it off and it landed flapping uproariously on the edge of the opened trap door. ‘My tree!’ it screamed, hopping from leg to leg. ‘My...
The Colonel talked into the mike near his shoulder again.
She was one of the unfortunates trying to get some sort of human grasp of Earth’s economics, and deserved all the light relief she could get. I recall that all through that year you could tell the eco...
Patience can be a means of letting matters mature to a proper state for action, not just a way of letting time slip away.
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...
Module, Za said, sprawling out over the seat and looking thoughtful, I’d like a double standard measure of staol and chilled Shungusteriaung warp-wing liver wine bottoming a mouth of white Eflyre-Spin...
Jase, which deep down was a hopeless romantic, thought her laughter sounded like the tinkling of mountain streams,
It's luck. All is luck when skill's played out. It was luck left me with a face that didn't fit in Contact, it's luck that's made you a great game-player, it's luck that's put you here tonight. Neithe...
It was clear that the delight being taken...was not the vicarious pleasure of watching people enjoying themselves and identifying with them, but in seeing people being humiliated while others enjoyed...
It strikes me that although we occasionally carp about Having To Suffer, and moan about never producing real Art, and become despondent or try too hard to compensate, we are indulging in our usual tri...
I'm the smartest thing for a hundred light years radius, and by a factor of about a million ...... but even I can't predict where a snooker ball's going to end up after more than six collisions.
He walked for days, stopping at bars and restaurants whenever he felt thirsty, hungry or tired; mostly they were automatic and he was served by little floating trays, though a few were staffed by real...