Anyone who made it through the screening and the training required to become an Arkie—which doesn’t include you, Julia—will understand exactly what we are trying to do from an orbital mechanics standp...
Andreas had been trying to remember the words to a ribald drinking song he had heard a few weeks ago when Saluador rode up next to him. The Spaniard’s horse was a hand or so taller than his own, and i...
And he’d realized computers could be a tool to unite society.
Americans’ preference for mediated experiences is obvious enough, and I’m not going to keep pounding it into the ground. I’m not even going to make snotty comments about it—after all, I was at Disney...
Almost as if it were written down somewhere in the Universal Character, Pepys and Wilkins and Waterhouse somehow knew that they had unfinished business together—that they ought to be having a discreet...
All she knew was that a large strawberry-blond man suddenly appeared in her shop, intent on hugging her. This was unusual. To put it mildly, the International Space Station, until now, had never been...
All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into ourbrain cells, or something, and we'll latch onto anything that'll fill that nichefor us. Now, religion used to be essential...
All of the questions that had been open when my head had hit the pillow were still pending. But in the intervening hours, my brain had been changing to fit the new shape of my world. I guess that’s wh...
All of Rommel’s supplies and reinforcements come across those very straits from Italy, and land at Tunis or Bizerta. From there, Rommel can strike out east towards Egypt or west
All duty is inconvenient to a greater or lesser degree, or it would not be duty.
After that it had all been oral history for about a thousand years, since there had been no paper to write on and no ink to write on it with. Memory devices were scarce and jury-rigged. Every single c...
A great deal of effort has been devoted to explaining Babel. Not the Babel event-- which most people consider to be a myth -- but the fact that languages tendto diverge. A number of linguistic theorie...
A Kourier has to establish space on the pavement. Predictable law-abiding behavior lulls drivers. They mentally assign you to a little box in the lane, assume you will stay there, can't handle it when...
. . if money is a science, then it is a dark science, darker than alchemy. It split away from Natural Philosophy millennia ago, and has gone on developing ever since, by its own rules.
After that it's just a chase scene.
They have commandos and astronauts who know this kind of thing cold. But Raz, you are educable, you can learn ‘this kind of thing,’ if by that you mean how to maneuver an S2-35B and how to assemble a...
The ambiguous conversation with the unseen serving-wench, the bags of hot-grease-scented food hurtling in through the window, condiments in packets, attempting to eat while lurching down a highway, vo...
Some manner of cause-and-effect relationship existed between the rise of scientific knowledge and the decline of magic.
Snow n... 2.a. Anything resembling snow. b. The white specks on a televisionscreen resulting from weak reception.crash v... -infr.. . . 5, To fail suddenly, as a business or an economy. -The American...
In the group, as the knights preferred stallions—and knelt in the sun-dappled mud and grass of a narrow meadow. Raphael and Percival joined her, kneeling on the other side of the run, two steps back....