He liked his transcendence out in plain sight where he could keep an eye on it -- say, in a nice stained-glass window -- not woven through the fabric of life like gold threads through a brocade.
. . 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.
Unbidden and unwanted thoughts are the hardest to expel from one’s mind.
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...
Scratched out the first few terms of a series: If you sum this series, it will slowly converge on pi. So we have a way to approach the value of pi—to reach toward it, but never to grasp it…much as the...
It comes out of the fact that during this century, intellectualism failed, and everyone knows it. In places like Russia and Germany, the common people agreed to loosen their grip on traditional folkwa...
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....
In the Metaverse, Hiro Protagonist is a warrior prince.
From a hundred to a hundred and fifty kilometers, depending on how fat you were and whether
Flame within them gets dim with the passage of time. So, if you have the fire, run, since you never know when it may be doused, leaving you stranded in darkness. —John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine A...
Encircling a large new habitat called Akureyri,
Can’t say I mourned my failure overmuch, as it meant I’d get a free trip to New Orleans out of it, and that would rock be most excellent. I DROVE BACK to the office late in the day to find Tristan col...
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.
And two cats. He teaches medieval fighting techniques to members of the armed forces. The Mongoliad is his first published fiction. Erik Bear lives and writes in Seattle, Washington. He has written fo...
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.