He was neither dead nor here, but in Idaho, a state often confused, by bicoastal folks, with Iowa, but that in fact was the anti-Iowa in many respects, a place that Iowans would only go to in order to...
He seemed not to know that he was quite handsome.
He looked behind him at the unadorned outer walls of the Septizodium. He stood in an alley, one of the many unmarked and unmemorable gaps between buildings in Rome. The door through which he had stumb...
He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and found that the surest way to shock most people, in those days, was to believe that some...
He gave them descriptive names that wouldn’t scare people. It wouldn’t do to call them Nemesis or Thor or Grond. So instead it was Potatohead, Mr. Spinny, Acorn, Peach Pit, Scoop, Big Boy, and Kidney...
He divides his time between thinking about sex and thinking about mathematics.
Half of the castle has, at one point or another, been burned down by a combination of Barbary corsairs, lightning bolts, Napoleon, and smoking in bed.
For most of the day and night, time oppresses me. It is only when I am at work on the innards of a clock-or a lock-that time stops.The clock stops, you mean.No. Time stops, or so it seems. I do not se...
For every human being who is born into this universe is like a child who has been given a key to an infinite Library, written in cyphers that are more or less obscure, arranged by a scheme — of which...
For a fraction of a second he was a yellow blossom of flame in the stream of light, and then he was one with it. All that remained of what he'd been was a wisp of steam coiling above the torrent of fi...
Fighting isn’t about knowing how, Ty said. It’s about deciding to.
Fearless for oneself, fear for others—that must be what it means to be a hero.
FORTRAN, BASIC, COBOL, LISP, Pascal, C, PROLOG, FORTH. You talk to the computer in one of these languages, and a piece of software called a compiler converts it into machine language.
Did you hook up with your girlfriend yet?No. But I have high hopes for that. Assuming I can stay alive.High hopes for what?Our relationship.Why? she asks. What's changed between then and now?This is o...
Daniel saw in a way he’d never seen anything before: his mind was a homunculus squatting in the middle of his skull, peering out through good but imperfect telescopes and listening horns, gathering ob...
CosaNostra Pizza doesn't have any competition. Competition goes against the Mafia ethic.
Clearly Mr. Drkh has had a long career of being the weirdest person in any given room, but he's about to go down in flames.
But the basic premise of Eutropianism is that technology has made us post-human. That Homo sapiens plus technology is effectively a whole new species: immortal, omnipresent because of the Net, and hea...
But our relationship to these infinite pasts and futures isn’t random—plausibility throws its weight around, per some freaky quantum mechanics stuff that Dr. Oda calls Feynman Diagram History Pachinko...
At any rate the total number of persons at the table was not enormously larger than the number of categories, meaning that nearly everyone present was reacting in an altogether different way, and in m...