Technology is built on science. Science is like the alchemists’ uroburos, continually eating its own tail. The process of science doesn’t work unless young scientists have the freedom to attack and te...
Technically speaking, the pond should be full of carp, but Hiro is American enough to think of carp as inedible dinosaurs that sit on the bottom and eat sewage.
THREE DAYS NORTH of the Danube, the road focused to a rut in a crowd of scrawny trees that were striving to rise clear from a haze of grasping weeds.
THE RUSSIAN INVASION BEGAN A WEEK LATER, WITH A SPATE OF flights producing what NASA described as mixed results and Roskosmos termed an acceptable fatality rate.
Sometimes, if you want to live and breathe tomorrow, you have to dive into the black depths today, and that is a leap of faith - faith in your U-boat, and your crew - beside which the saints' religiou...
Sometimes I wonder who'll come after me, he says. Oh, we have plenty ofexcellent people in the next generation. But after that -- well, I don't know.I guess all old people feel like the world is comin...
So the Sumerians worshipped Enki, and the Babylonians, who came after theSumerians, worshipped Marduk, his son.Yes, sir. And whenever Marduk got stuck, he would ask his father Enki forhelp. There is a...
So now, when the people of Earth looked up into the night sky at the place where they ought to have seen the moon, they saw instead this slowly tumbling constellation of white boulders.
She's a woman, you're a dude. You're not supposed to understand her. That's not what she's after.... She doesn't want you to understand her. She knows that's impossible. She just wants you to understa...
Really, he has only two emotions: sleeping and adrenaline overdrive.
Randy is a member in good standing of American society again, having cheerfully endured the process of being ritually goosed by the Government. He feels a strong impulse to drive straight to the neare...
People are my books, Ty said. But I did bring a couple, in case the people all go to sleep.
Parking lots and chaos.
Other people - store clerks, burger flippers, software engineers, the whole vocabulary of meaningless jobs that make up Life in America - other people just rely on plain old competition. Better flip y...
One of the soldiers slapped Gansukh on the legs with the shaft of his spear, and the Mongol warrior rolled away from the blow, getting his legs under him. Even though Gansukh didn’t understand a word...
Of course, the underlying structure of everything in England is posh. There is no in between with these people. You have to walk a mile to find a telephone booth, but when you find it, it is built as...
No intelligent person in Blue believes that, of course.
My colleague Bruce Sterling has defined a thriller as a science fiction novel that includes the President of the United States.
Modern people are calibrated for a whole different level of danger acceptance.
Meetings had never been her strong suit. She felt like she was playing an away game whenever she sat down in a conference room. Her awareness of this got in the way and turned into a self-fulfilling p...