If no one is barfing, then none of us is likely to die, at least over a time span of weeks.
If it’s wearing red, yellow, or both, it’s a lama, he said. Bow to it. Isn’t that a camel from South America?
If Admiral Tourville’s invasion-fleet makes it across the Channel without being sunk by the Royal Navy, and if the Papist legion establishes a beachhead on English soil without being destroyed by the...
I was going to kill that doctor when he shoved his finger up my ass but then I realized the possibilities of that substance.
I wanted to shout: one Far Side on the door does not an interesting person make.
I study dead languages for a living, I said. That’s why you hired me. Why should I be up to speed on your line of work? How’s your Serbo-Croatian? What’s your position on the relationship between Osca...
I made it into Wikipedia, sang Erszebet. I’ll bet none of my enemies ever made it into Wikipedia.
I feared he might be trying to grow a beard again.
I don't even want you to nod, that's how much you annoy me. Just freeze and shut up.
I am what I am, Ty said. And what is that? Ariane asked. A bartender. Always happy to make new acquaintances. He nodded at Bard. Or to provide guests with drinks. Anyone thirsty?
Hollywood was merely a specialized bank—a consortium of large financial entities that hired talent, almost always for a flat rate, ordered that talent to create a product, and then marketed that produ...
Holding one of those things in your hands, cleaning the barrel and shoving the rounds into clips, really brings you face-to-face with what a desperate, last-ditch measure they really are. I mean, if i...
His rule of thumb, after a walk, is to drink water until he begins to urinate again. Then he can consider other activities.
Hiro's father, who was stationed in Japan for many years, was obsessed with cameras. He kept bringing them back from his stints in the Far East, encased in many protective layers, so that when he took...
Hiro looks up, focuses his gaze on Earth, zooms in for a look. As he gets closer, the imagery he's looking at shifts from the long-range pictures coming in from the geosynchronous satellites to the go...
Hiro and Chuck grab the closest thing they can find to a corner table. Hirobuttonholes a waiter and surreptitiously orders a pitcher of Pub Special, mixedhalf and half with nonalcoholic beer. This way...
Henry, que en aquel momento tenía once años, no había prestado atención al proceso de elevar el imponente cohete hasta su posición vertical porque se distrajo viendo un par de perros callejeros copula...
He was tempted to park the SUV illegally, since, according to his calculations, the authorities were not likely to catch up with him and demand payment of the parking ticket before the end of the worl...
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 was forty-seven years old but in dim light could have passed for thirty.