The franchise and the virus work on the same principle, what thrives in one place will thrive in another. You just have to find a sufficiently virulent business plan, condense it into a three-ring bin...
The first time he saw her, he formed an impression that did notchange for many years: She was a dour, bookish, geeky type who dressed like shewas interviewing for a job as an accountant at a funeral p...
The expenditure of paper and printer ink had been somewhat lavish. Two generations from now, if any humans survived, they would look on this heap of documents with some combination of disgust and amaz...
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 correct way to think about intelligence, in this case, is as a human quality shared by just about everyone, at least until it gets beaten out of us. Not a special gift that is bestowed on only a f...
The cloud, in other words, became not just a physical cloud of flying objects in space but a computational cloud as well, a free-floating, self-regulating Internet.
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 businessman turns out to have a lot of zanshin. Translating this concept into English is like translating fuckface into Nipponese, but it might translate into emotional intensity in football lingo...
The big lie of American capitalism is that corporations work in their own best interests. In fact they’re constantly doing things that will eventually bring them to their knees. Most of these blunders...
The Sumerians wrote on everything.When they built a building, they would write in cuneiform on every brick. Whenthe buildings fell down, these bricks would remain, scattered across the desert.In the K...
The Præsidium stood on four pillars and for most of its height was square in cross-section. Not far above the dials, however, the corners of the square floor-plan were cleaved off, making it into an o...
The Deliverator's car has enough potential energy packed into its batteries to fire a pound of bacon into the Asteroid Belt. Unlike a bimbo box or a Burb beater, the Deliverator's car unloads that pow...
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.
That is a very odd thing to see on the Thames, Daniel remarked. What flag does she fly? For van Hoek had unlimbered his prospective-glass. The double eagle. She is a war-galley of the Russian Navy, va...
THE ROUGH TIMBERS of the monastery wall were aged and warped, and there were numerous gaps and holes in the wood. Covered in pitch, they were a poor defensive barrier, if they had ever been intended a...
THE MOON BLEW UP WITHOUT WARNING AND FOR NO APPARENT reason. It was waxing, only one day short of full.
Space and Time! Two minor omissions that no one is likely to notice, grumbled Newton.
Sorry, she said, I got out as fast as I could, but I had to stay and socialize. Protocol, you know.Explain protocol, Nell said. This was how she always talked to the Primer.At the place we’re going, y...
Some of these Marines learned what they know on Guadalcanal, a basically useless island in the Southwest Pacific where the Empire of Nippon and the United States of America are disputing—with rifles—e...
So, let me guess, she says, you are the guy doing the software.Yeah, he admits, a little defensive, but the software is the only interesting part of this whole project. All the rest is making license...