From a hundred to a hundred and fifty kilometers, depending on how fat you were and whether
But if you have studied that, everything since will seem like repetition and all the particulars as to how the Sæcular Power of my day was organized will remind you of more or less ancient forerunners...
At this point in their lives, neither one of them is important enough to kill, kidnap, or interrogate.
Amística, un término acuñado hacía eones por un antropólogo moirano para referirse a las elecciones que hacían las diferentes culturas en cuanto a qué tecnologías formarían parte de su vida y cuáles n...
[...] people too busy leading their lives to worry about extending their life expectancy.
You may have envisioned half a dozen potential markets for your product, but as soon as you open your doors, one just explodes from the pack and becomes so instantly important that good business sense...
You have responsibilities now, Bob. You must lose this naïve understanding of violence! You are embarrassin’ me in front of the lads! You can’t play by their rules or they’ll win unfailingly! You don’...
You bent my words again, says Goto Dengo. You spoke crooked words and I straightened them,
Yes. It’s really only since wireless networks got fast enough to stream pictures to portable devices that everything changed, Enoch said, and enabled each individual person to live twenty-four/ seven...
With reference to viral infections, the Librarian says, if I may make a fairly blunt, spontaneous cross-reference—something I am coded to do at opportune moments—you may wish to examine herpes simplex...
With any job, there’s some creative work that needs to be done—new technology to be developed or whatever. Everything else—ninety-nine percent of it—is making deals, raising capital, going to meetings...
Why, exactly, is Marduk handing Hammurabi a one and a zero in this picture?Hiro asks.They were emblems of royal power, the Librarian says. Their origin isobscure.Enki must have been responsible for th...
Why couldn’t I fill my hard drive with random bytes, so that individual files would not be discernible? Their very existence would be hidden in the noise, like a striped tiger in tall grass. And we co...
Who is going to fight them off, Randy? I’m afraid you’re going to say we are. Sometimes it might be other Ares-worshippers, as when Iran and Iraq went to war and no one cared who won. But if Ares-wors...
When you just wing it, you are aware of the risk and the uncertainty, and inclined to be more cautious. When you have a high-tech tool giving you an illusion of omniscience, I am concerned that it wil...
When the gangplanks are drawn in from the stone edge of the Bund, they are cut off from a whole world that they’ll never see again, a world where they were kings. Now they are Marines again.
What is BFR? asked Pete Starling. For the graph’s vertical scale was labeled thus. Bolide Fragmentation Rate, Doob said. The rate at which new rocks are being produced. Is that a standard term? Pete w...
What he wasn’t so good at was manipulating the internal states of other humans, getting them to see things his way, do things for him. His baseline attitude toward other humans was that they could all...
What do you think Orolo saw, when he looked out thus? Fraa Jad asked. He was a great appreciator of beauty and loved to look at the mountains from the starhenge, I said. You think he saw beauty? That...
What are letters?Kinda like mediaglyphics except they’re all black, and they’re tiny, they don’t move, they’re old and boring and really hard to read. But you can use ’em to make short words for long...