Their skins were different colors but they all belonged to the same ethnic group: Military.
Their openness would probably be career suicide in the atmosphere of Byzantine court-eunuch intrigue that is public life in the United States today.
The world of physical objects seemed to have been made solely for the purpose of giving the men around Grandma something to do with their hands; and not, mind you, for any practical reason, but purely...
The world is full of power and energy and a person can go far by just skimming off a tiny bit of it.
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 sight of the bare katana inspires everyone to a practically Nipponese level of politeness.
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 result, a few moments later, was that the glider came snapping over the top just as its connection to the last flynk was severed. In a few seconds it had been hauled two thousand meters straight u...
The problem of distributing bathroom tissue to workers presents inherent challenges for any office management system due to the inherent unpredictability of usage—not every facility usage transaction...
The place was famous for always having ‘six comely maidens’ working there, I said, with air quotes, ‘serving the customers ale and aught.’ What’s aught? asked Tristan. Whatever you want it to be, I sa...
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 people are pieces of software called avatars. They are the audiovisual bodies that people use to communicate with each other in the Metaverse. Hiro's avatar is now on the Street, too, and if the c...
The old guard believe in that code because they came to it the hard way. They raise their children to believe in that code—but their children believe it for entirely different reasons. They believe it...
The narration had lasted for the better part of an hour despite Markus’s increasingly frequent and obvious glances at his Swiss watch, and left all the others in a strange combination of spellbound, b...
The mystic nails a symbol to one meaning that was true for a moment but soon becomes false. The poet, on the other hand, sees that truth while it’s true but understands that symbols are always in flux...
The lieutenant looks somewhat taken aback that Uncle Enzo is concerning himselfwith such a tiny detail It is as if the don were going up and down highwayspicking up litter or something. But he nods re...
The last year had been an education in how little having money really mattered. A rich Vagabond was a Vagabond still, and ’twas common knowledge that King Charles, during the Interregnum, had lived wi...
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.