It is what you don’t expect, he’d said, that most needs looking for. Do
It is what you don’t expect, he’d said, that most needs looking for.
It is the truth, said Oda-sensei. Sometimes the truth is flattering.
It gave them something to do and it took their mind off the way Yuxia was driving, which, had they paid attention to it, might have been the most frightening thing they had seen all day.
In war, no matter how much you plan and prepare and practice, when the big day actually arrives, you still can’t find your ass with both hands.
In the bottoms, reeds grew thick and green in rain-swollen waterways; low, shrubby willows populated a patchwork of sandy islands; and other water-hardy stuff grew in such profusion that only the most...
In any crisis, survivors will always berate themselves that they could have done more, Léna said, almost to herself. She blinked and then her sharp focus returned to Ocyrhoe. I should get you out of R...
In a sword-fighting drill, where one participant is going to mount an attack and the other is to respond in some way, the attacker is known as the agent and the respondent is known as the patient. The...
In a hypothetical, extremely simple Cloud Ark consisting of only two arklets, only one calculation needed to be performed: namely, the calculation that answered the question Will Arklet 1 bang into Ar...
If you sincerely believed in God, how could you form one thought, speak one sentence, without mentioning Him?
If you are that much of a control freak, what sexual preferences does that translate into? I hope I’ll never know. I suppose you would want to dominate a woman. Wrong! Avi said. Sex is more complicate...
If she screws up this delivery, that means she's double-crossing God, who may or may not exist, and in any case who is capable of forgiveness. The Mafia definitely exists and hews to a higher standard...
If he lived by a simple code of ethics, it was not an end in itself, but a way to get something done without selling his soul or destroying his reputation. It was a tool to be wielded like a shovel or...
If a zombie attack had actually materialized, then they might have had a clue as to how to respond. But a stupendous machine-gun free-for-all in the apartment above them was not an eventuality that th...
Identity had been forever changed by the Internet; formerly it had meant who you really are but now it meant any one of a number of persistent faces that you can present to the digital universe.
Ideas are good things to have even if they are old. Even to understand the most advanced theorics requires a lifetime of study. To keep the existing stock of ideas alive requires…all of this. And I wa...
I use emacs, which might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor.
I know, Julia said. It is so difficult rebuilding an intelligence community from scratch. One must make do with the materials at hand. Their youth, their inexperience, and the openness they’ve come to...
I just saved your fucking life, Mom. . . . You could at least offer me an Oreo.
I have spent enough time around Puritans in general, and Boston Puritans in particular, to know what these people will tell her: lock up the library! Or