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...
All food, comfort, energy, shelter, space, fuel and sustenance gravitates naturally and easily away from those who need it most and towards those who need it least.
Action appealed to him most; it was the warriors' creed. When in doubt, do.
The one on the left," Worthil said, "is a male, carrying the testes and penis. The middle one is equipped with a kind of reversible vagina, and ovaries. The vagina turns inside-out to implant the fert...
The rich just bribe their way out. So yes, as far as the rulers are concerned, it works.
Clasp/
A recently made entertainment he’d heard people talking about. It concerned a planet whose intelligent inhabitants were sentient glaciers and their iceberg children. He had expected to despise its pre...
[I]t was really only in the generation or two before hers that the idea had started to traverse the spectrum of likelihood in the popular imagination, beginning at unthinkable, progressing to absurd,...
[A]ll her hardships had been self-inflicted and recreational in the past.
You been mud wrestling..?' 'Only with my conscience.' 'Really? Who won?' 'Well, it was one of those rare occasions when violence really doesn't solve anything.
When in Rome; burn it.
What is any achievement, however great it was, once time itself is dead?
Well, in the end, there was no helping this. Sometimes you just had to adopt the attitude summed up by,
Vos vaisseaux se croient intelligents et conscients ! gloussa Hamin.C'est aussi une erreur assez communément répandue parmi certains de nos compatriotes humains.
Ulver Seich woke up in the best possible way. She surfaced with a languorous slowness through fuzzy layers of luxurious half-dreams and memories of sweetness, sensuality and sheer carnal bliss… to fi...
Thing about emergencies, he said, sounding weary. Rarely occur when they’d be convenient.
There was something comforting about having a vast hydrogen furnace burning millions of tons of material a second at the centre of a solar system. It was cheery.
The smell was that of a sewer under an abattoir.
The Idirans themselves had evolved on their planet Idir as the top monster from a whole planetful of monsters.
Neeporlax presented something of a contrast.