He seemed not to know that he was quite handsome.
He has found that he works best when he is not horny, which is to say in the day or so following ejaculation.
He had come home late with take-out Thai and slammed into the sofa and tried to watch a movie, but kept drifting from it to the screen of his laptop. This was part of Corporation 9592’s strategy; they...
He had always admired his colleagues in the life and earth sciences who could hit the road on short notice with a fully stocked backpack and live rugged adventuresome lives in exotic locales. But he h...
He gazes up at the ceiling of the chapel through half-closed eyes and thanks God for having sent him what is obviously a German spy and an angel of mercy rolled into one adorable package.
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 finds an open boulevard of water that leads inward to the Core. It has asort of pedestrian catwalk running along one side of it, pieced togetherhaphazardly, a seemingly endless procession of gangpl...
He divides his time between thinking about sex and thinking about mathematics.
He arouses violent controversy among a loose flock of chickens that is straggling across his path, none of whom can seem to figure out how to get out of his way; they’re scared of him, but not mentall...
Has anyone you know ever been ritually mutilated because they were seen reading a book?
Grammar is like the walls and bumpers of a pinball machine. Rhetoric is like the flippers of a pinball machine. You control the flippers. The rest of the machine—grammar—controls everything else. If y...
Got what? Pete Starling asked, over the video link. Am I missing something? No, Dinah said. We are just proceeding adaptively to leverage our core competencies.
Got himself fired for pulling a sword on an acknowledged perp. Slid it right through the fabric of the perp’s shirt, gliding the flat of the blade along the base of his neck, and pinned him to a warpe...
Getting through the intersection involves tracing paths through the parking system, many braided filaments of direction like the Ho Chi Minh trail.
Generally you pick the unoccupied workstation that's closest to the door. That way, whoever came in earliest sits closest, whoever came in latest is way in the back, for the rest of the day it's obvio...
From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything
For the first time in her life she was feeling the stirrings of what was called Old Racism: the survival into modern times of racial attitudes, or reenactments thereof, that had existed on Old Earth,...
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...