There is a moment of surface tension when a knife blade presents its demand and the flesh honors it. An instant of pressure before the puncture, the rip before the slide, a small eternity easy to miss...
Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of other heroes with that acerbic humor when you find it.
You're an interesting person, Jack. Sullivan said. I wish I could figure out what you were thinging when you punched Stern and turned on Isabel.Well, I think that's the thing. Holloway said. I think i...
You threw him into space? Yup. And he didn’t die? We only threw him out a little bit. Marce
You have to eliminate the low-hanging targets first, on the off chance you were dealing with morons.
When you're a kid all you want to do is be somewhere else.
Two classics stuck with them. Ender’s Game delighted them all; here were soldiers who were just like them, except smaller. The main character was even bred to fight alien species like they were. The n...
That’s the human brain, Attavio VI said. It creates patterns when there aren’t any. Imagines causality when there is none. Imagines a narrative where none exists. It’s in the design of the brain itsel...
Part of me was once someone you loved—she sent. I think that part of me wants to be loved by you again, and wants me to love you as well. I can’t be her. I can just be me. But I think you could love m...
Many BrainPal users find it useful to give their BrainPal a name other than BrainPal. Would you like to name your BrainPal at this time?Yes, I said.Please speak the name you would like to give your Br...
Hey, you know what, basing an entire system of social, political and economic control on the vague, all-too-easily misinterpreted words of a single person claiming divine inspiration is probably not a...
But I have always found that there’s an inverse relationship between the number of people in a room and the amount of useful work that can be done.
We're in the wrong universe for fair.
Teenagers can be idiotic and stupid, but teenagers also model their behavior from the signals they get from adults.
Now, you may think that this is some sort of generalized hatred that I will carry for the lot of you. Let me assure you that this is not the case. Each of you will fail, but you will fail in your own...
Just because I look like a human being doesn’t mean I am. This body has more genetic material that’s not strictly human than it does material that is human. And it heavily integrates machines as well....
It’s not a bad idea. It’s a terrible idea, Oi said. It just has the advantage of being better than the other option.
In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug, Cassaway said, dryly.
I have to tell him that the sheep we’re looking for is a woman who runs a pet store, Creek said. I think telling him his younger brother’s been resurrected as a computer program might be a little much...
I don’t look smug. You always look smug. You have resting smug face.