Gurgeh never ceased to be fascinated by the way a society’s games revealed so much about its ethos, its philosophy, its very soul.
He also believed that it was a deliberate scheme of their mentors to encourage those who were in power, or who would one day assume power, to witness the wonders that they were not being shown, so tha...
He gazed out to sea for a moment, then added, One should never mistake pattern … for meaning.
He walked along Street Six, in the heart of Night City Tier. There were Night Cities throughout the developed galaxy; it was a kind of condominium franchise, though nobody seemed to know to whom the f...
His jaw was slack and his mouth open, and he wondered if perhaps he would drown eventually; drowned by the falling rain.
How long have we had space travel? Breyguhn shouted, smacking her fist into the table surface; the chain whipped down, scattering chips of granite. Breyguhn didn’t seem to notice. Seven thousand years...
I once visited a place where they killed people by putting them in a chair. Not torture — that was common enough; beds and chairs were very much the par when it came to getting people helpless and con...
I strongly suspect the things people believe in are usually just what they instinctively feel is right; the excuses, the justifications, the things you’re supposed to argue about, come later. They’re...
I strongly suspect the things people believe in are usually just what they instinctively feel is right; the
I'm too drunk to recall much of what I've said. Which, come to think of it, is probably just as well, judging by the way people who are normally quite sensible dissolve into gibbering, rude, opinionat...
It was like flying upside-down over a planet made of metal; and of all the sights the galaxy held which were the result of conscious effort, it was one bested for what the Culture would call gawp valu...
Jernau Gurgeh, the machine said, making a sighing noise, a guilty system recognizes no innocents. As with any power apparatus which thinks everybody’s either for it or against it, we’re against it. Yo...
Just before the Clear Air Turbulence went back into warp and its crew sat down at table, the ship expelled the limp corpse of Zallin. Where it had found a live man in a suit, it left a dead youth in s...
Little textual note for you here (bear with me). Those of you unfortunate enough not to be reading or hearing this in Marain may well be using a language without the requisite number or type of person...
Meaning is everywhere. There is always meaning. Or at least all things show a disturbing tendency to have meaning ascribed to them when intelligent creatures are present. It’s just that there’s no fin...
Money is a sign of poverty.
Most people are not prepared to have their minds changed,
My greatest enemies are Women and the Sea. These things I hate. Women because they are weak and stupid and live in the shadow of men and are nothing compared to them, and the Sea because it has always...
Perdition awaits at the end of a road constructed entirely from good intentions, the devil emerges from the details and hell abides in the small print.
Shut up! Bettlescroy shouted, one tiny fist thudding down on the desk beneath the screen. The Culture vessel has also already worked out how to get the fabricaria-built ships to set about destroying e...
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