Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives.
Every creature has a survival instinct. It looks like fear but it’s not the same thing. Fear isn’t the desire to avoid death or pain. Fear is rooted in the knowledge that what you recognize as yoursel...
And when I say exploded I mean interacted catastrophically with the topography of space/time in ways we’re not entirely able to explain, but explode gets the gist of it, particularly with regard to wh...
And so we learn how simple it is to change the history of the universe, Sorvalh said. All you need is for every other thing to have gone so horribly wrong
A church is an institution separate from the religion it serves. It’s filled with people. And you know how people are.
This is my rife. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My rife is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I have master my life. My rife, without me, is useless. Without my rife, I...
The Fflict recognized five genders: male, female, zhial, yal, and neuter. Aul was zhial, and ze liked zis pronouns accurately stated. I would too, in zis position.
Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us.
Really really really difficult, Tony allowed. But theoretically possible because, hey, it's a quantum physics universe.
Mom, I remember Lizzie, Hart said. She’s really not my type. She has a brother, Wes said, from his lounge. He’s not my type, either, Hart said.
I’m continually confronted with the human tendency to ignore or deny facts until the last possible instant. And then for several days after that, too. Attavio
If they can work out the kinks, it could revolutionize space travel. ‘Work out the kinks’? Jared said. I’m about to use this thing. Kinks are bad.
God is a hack, he said. He’s a writer on an awful science fiction television show, and He can’t plot His way out of a box. How do you have faith when you know that?
After watching Star Wars everyone wanted a lightsaber and was irritated that the technology for them didn’t really exist. Everyone also agreed the Ewoks should all die.
There’s nothing like sharing menarche with a billion hermaphrodites. I think it was everyone’s first time.
There’s a saying: May you live in interesting times. To begin, it’s a curse. Interesting in this case uniformly means Oh god, death is raining down upon us and we shall all perish wailing and possibly...
Lovely, Wilson said, looking at the display. And by ‘lovely,’ I mean ‘Oh, crap.
Again I ask permission to be blunt. Ambassador Abumwe, at this point I cannot imagine you being otherwise.