The universe was a disorderly mess, the only interesting bits being the organised anomalies. Hackworth had once taken his family out rowing on the pond in the park, and the ends of the yellow oars spu...
The stuff was tremendous, like drinking your favorite book.
The string goes taught and the tray slides into the tunnel and disappears.
The same thrust, pushing against a greatly reduced burden, would then yield acceleration that Lio had cheerfully described as 'near-fatal.' 'But it's okay,' he'd said, 'you'll black out before anythin...
The place was empty ‘cause of the Hanging. I didn’t want to stay and— And what? Get more ahead of the others than I was already. If you are ahead, the correct thing is to get used to it—not to make yo...
The nuggets themselves are pillow-shaped and vaguely striated to echo piratical treasure chests. Now, with a flake-type of cereal, Randy’s strategy would never work. But then, Cap’n Crunch in a flake...
The modern world’s hell on haiku writers: Electrical generator is, what, eight syllables? You couldn’t even fit that onto the second line!
The managerthunks down a couple of steps, glares at her, glares at her for rather a longtime. The manager, clearly, is tempted. That momentary glimpse of flesh hasbeen ricocheting around in his brain...
The general picture was that Ymir would not be anything like the traditional idea of a spaceship, in the sense of an orderly, symmetrical piece of architecture. It would be more like a flying robotic...
The full cosmos consists of the physical stuff consciousness. Take away consciousness and it's only dust; add consciousness and you get things, ideas, and time.
The fact that the scientific investigator works 50 percent of his time by nonrational means is, it seems, quite insufficiently recognized.
The example cited most often was a gradual change in eye color among Moirans. Eve Moira’s eyes had been hazel: relatively light in color by the standards of black people, but not all that unusual. By...
The cathedral as a whole is awesome and stirring in spite, and possibly because, of the fact that we have no idea who built it. When we walk through it, we are communing not with individual stone carv...
The Galvanick Lucipher is of antique design. Ghnxh, who is about a hundred years old, can only smile in condescension at Waterhouse's U.S Navy flashlight. In the sotto voce one might use to correct an...
The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallow subcategory. He's got esprit up to here. Right now, he is preparing to carry out his third mission of the night. His uniform is black as activated c...
The Cloud Ark Constitution is now in effect. Dinah drew breath, knowing what this meant. Markus spelled it out anyway. This means that all nation-states of Earth, and their governments and constitutio...
The Barkers are gratuitously radical, however—for example, they believe that Government and Church should have naught to do with each other, and that all slaves in the world should be set free.
That's when the realization comes. It swims up out of her subconscious in the same way that a nightmare does. Or when you leave the house and remember half an hour later that you left a teakettle goin...
That's funny because if anyone actually did prove the existence of God we'd just tell him 'nice proof, Fraa Bly' and start believing in God.
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...