What are you going to say to the Maternal Organism? Dinah asked, as Ivy rummaged in the back of a storage bin for her bottle of tequila. Ivy stiffened for a moment, then pulled out the bottle and swun...
We have a huge workforce that is illiterate or alliterate and relies on TV—which is sort of an oral tradition. And we have a small, extremely literate power elite—the people who go into the Metaverse,...
War gives men good ignoring skills.
Versailles has only existed for seven years. It does not have any ancient traditions. It was made by Colbert, the commoner. It is full of nobles, true; but you fool yourself if you believe that they f...
Topology is destiny,
There's only four things we do better than anyone else:musicmovies
There is one universe, by the definition of universe. It is not the cosmos we see through our eyes and our telescopes—that is but a single Narrative, a thread winding through a Hemn space shared by ma...
The rest is drowned out by sound breaking in through his earphones, coming in from Reality:
The ports were individually numbered with glowing digits, and annotated, in the mixture of Latin and Cyrillic used throughout the ring, as to their purposes: TRANZIT IMMIGRAШON MILITARY CURVEY CPEЦ
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...
The House of the Venerable and Inscrutable Colonel was what they called it when they were speaking Chinese. Venerable because of his goatee, white as the dogwood blossom, a badge of unimpeachable cred...
The FBI hates and fears strong crypto.
That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code.
THE PREMISE OF THIS BOOK CAME TO ME CIRCA 2006,
THE MOON BLEW UP WITHOUT WARNING AND FOR NO APPARENT reason.
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.
Pero el mundo no lo llevan científicos e ingenieros, ¿es lo que pretendes decir?
Old Earthers had focused their intelligence on the small and the soft, not the big and the hard, and built a civilization that was puny and crumbling where physical infrastructure was concerned, but a...