The rest is drowned out by sound breaking in through his earphones, coming in from Reality:
The opening screen of T'Rain was a frank rip-off of what you saw when you booted up Google Earth. Richard felt no guilt about this since he had heard that Google Earth in turn was based on an idea fro...
The mind couldn't think about the End of the World all the time. It needed the occasional break, a romp through the trivial.
The meeting would later be known as the Council of the Seven Eves.
The goal was to find products that would keep on making money forever, long after the talent had been paid off and sent packing.
The complications, as always, had to do with avoiding collisions and respecting what was still called air space around habitats, even though it had no air in it and might more properly have been calle...
That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code.
That sounds like bulshytt!
That man behaves so much like the villain in a work of literature, it’s almost funny, Arsibalt observed.
SouthernCalifornia doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot.Not enough roads for the number of people. Fairlanes, Inc. is laying new onesall the time. Have to bulldoze lots o...
Rome entirely. The dumb beast already sensed his fear and didn’t know what to do except be frightened as well. Run, Ferenc
Put 'em on and be yourself, mister alienated loner steppenwolf bemused distant meta-izing technocrat rationalist fucking shithead.
One of the ice cubes in Doob’s glass let out a little pop as it underwent thermal fracturing. Doob
One of the funny things about it, in retrospect, was its slowness, the lack of any dramatic Moment When It Had Happened. It was a little bit like the world’s adoption of the Internet, which had starte...
Okay, so divers have mastered a large body of occult knowledge. That explains their general resemblance to hackers, albeit physically fit hackers.
Now he had learned that a machine, simple in its design, could produce results of infinite complexity.
My son, in the eyes of Heaven, we are all as little children. No one of us is more important than another. In fact, the more important we think we are, the less we stand out in the eyes of the Lord.
MEN WHO BELIEVE that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time. Bobby Shaftoe has learned most of his practical knowle...
Kath Two wondered, as she always did, whether the people of the Epic would have said and done some of what they had, had they known that, five thousand years later, billions of people would be watchin...
Just because the Panjandrums know how to run cheeseburg stands, they think they know how to run a Convox.