It had come from one of two corgis who were even now slamming their preposterous bodies into each other not far away, trying to roll each other over, which runs contrary to the laws of mechanics even...
If you've put yourself in a position where someone has to see you in order for you to be safe - to see you, and to give a fuck - you've already blown it.
I mean, who wants to be the fucking goddess of macrame?
I don't know how my face conveyed that information, or what kind of internal wiring in my grandmother's mind enabled her to accomplishthis incredible feat. To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.Co...
Godspeed? Godspeed! What kind of a thing is that to say to a fucking galley slave?
For one of the toxic things about Lineages was that rich avout could get not-so-rich ones to do things for them in exchange for better food, better drink, and better lodging.
Computers speak machine language, Hiro says. It's written in ones and zeroes-- binary code. At the lowest level, all computers are programmed with stringsof ones and zeroes. When you program in machin...
Any information system of sufficient complexity will inevitably become infected with viruses—viruses generated from within itself.
Actually, I’ve been thinking about that, Tristan said, and finally sat down again. It’s the dog that didn’t bark.
You live in a shithole, there's always the Metaverse, and in the Metaverse, Hiro Protagonist is a warrior prince.
A serial killer armed with a couple of feet of clothesline is far more dangerous than a cheerleader with a bazooka.
You have multiple core competencies with surprisingly minimal Venn.
Y.T. knows he's a computer guy because he has long hair in a ponytail and he's wearing jeans and he seems gentle.
What he wasn't so good at was manipulating the internal states of other humans, getting them to see things his way, do things for him. His baseline attitude toward other humans wass that they could al...
What destroys it? Is it the Inquisition? Those idiot priests go chasing after innocent women, as if real witches would let themselves be caught and tortured and killed! Almost by definition, anyone wh...
This Snow Crash thing--is it a virus, a drug, or a religion? Juanita shrugs. What's the difference?
There was silence around the big table in the Banana.
The uniform has a hundred pockets, big flat pockets for deliveries and eensy narrow pockets for gear, pockets sewn into sleeves, thighs, shins. The equipment stuck into these multifarious pockets tend...
The tragedy—and the entire point—of being a parent was the moment when the story stopped being about you.
The room contains a few dozen living human bodies, each one a big sack of guts and fluids so highly compressed that it will squirt for a few yards when pierced. Each one is built around an armature of...