Amazing how much we’ve managed to do, considering how we’re doing it all with jumped-up social primates and evolutionary behaviors from the Pleistocene.
All of them do what they think is right, and tell themselves that they’re moral people with the strength to do the necessary things, however terrible they seem at the time. Every atrocity that has bee...
Alex’s experience of real family—of blood relations—was more like having a lot of people who had all wound up on the same mailing list without knowing quite why they signed up for it.
Against all evidence, I keep thinking the assholes are outliers. She
Ade, I like you. I mean, I really enjoy your company, he said. I don’t understand why we can’t spend some time together with our clothes on. Holden. Sweetie. Stop it, okay? Stop what? Stop trying to t...
A lot of people claim to believe in things. ‘Family is most important,’ but they’ll screw a fifty-dollar hooker on payday. ‘Country first,’ but they cheat on their taxes. Not you, though. You say ever...
A kid born today would grow up in a world where carbon-silicate lace was as common as titanium or glass. That it was a collaboration between humanity and the ghosts of a massive and alien intelligence...
A flock of softball-sized spiderlike things crawled through the corridor, leaving a slick sheen of glowing slime behind them. It wasn’t until he paused to knock one off the cart that he recognized the...
A decent idea now is way better than a brilliant plan when it’s too late. I
A bicycle? Amos leaned on the breakfast bar. Sure. They don’t need fuel, they don’t get sick. Most of the repairs, you can handle on your own. You’re looking for post-apocalyptic transportation, bikes...
While he spoke, he never even made it in front of the ethics review. Quit the day before. Made a lot of fuss, walking through the lab and yelling that we weren’t going to be able to push him around an...
When you got right down to it, humans were still just curious monkeys. They still had to poke everything they found with a stick to see what it did. The
There really wasn’t any such thing as a mixed church group. No matter what they looked like, or what they chose to call Him, when a group of people called out to God together, they were one.
Strange how a person could be so vitally important in your life, and yet you had nothing to say to them when they weren’t sharing the same air.
Said something obscene.
Mentally filed the thought under horrifically inappropriate given the circumstances.
It was impossible to forget that they were going into the unknown. Here there be monsters.
He talked about shifting strategies like they were the middle part of metamorphosis. Apparently when a caterpillar makes a cocoon, the next thing it does is melt. Completely liquefies. And then all th...
Back when they were young and, if not hopeful, at least more joyful in their fatalism.
Atavistic