I have let you live, but for one purpose only: so that you can make your way back to Paris and tell them the following: that the deed you are about to witness was done for a woman, whose name I will n...
I don’t think that teenagers are the way they are because of their age. It’s because they have nothing to lose. They simultaneously have a lot of time on their hands and yet are very impatient to get...
I don't think a Drop Top can can reach an orbit this high, can it? Dinah asked. Sean's coming alone. It's some kind of special one-passenger model -- the extra mass is being used for propellant. And...
I didn't think you talked to people in the Metaverse.I do if I want to get through to someone in a hurry, she says. And I'llalways talk to you.Why me?You know. Because of us. Remember? Because of our...
Human nature doesn’t change, Randy. Education is hopeless. The most educated people in the world can turn into Aztecs or Nazis just like that. He snaps his fingers.
How could a man become a god? Nell asked. By living in an extremely pragmatic society, said Constable Moore after some thought
Hollywood was all about. Hollywood was merely a specialized bank—a consortium of large financial entities that hired talent, almost always for a flat rate, ordered that talent to create a product, and...
Hmyz v džungli vás považuje za velké kusy živého, avšak nepříliš dobře hájeného jídla. Schopnost pohybu není ani tak odstrašující prostředek, spíš slouží jako nezfalšovatelná záruka čerstvosti.
His real job—the job that the Owners paid him for—was to be an observer of the human condition as it was so richly displayed from day to day within these walls.
His mind refused to accept that what he was hearing was laughter, and that it was coming from a human throat. He scrambled backward, and the shadowy figure leaped forward, grabbing at his trailing leg...
Hey, Shaftoe says, if we surrender to you, you’ll kill us. Right? Yes. If you guys surrender to us, we won’t kill you. Promise. Scout’s honor. For us, living or dying is not the important thing, Goto...
He was a sniper scout, and it was in his nature to do crazy shit like this; but it was also part of his training to scan the terrain carefully before venturing in.
He sounds like kind of a hacker. Which makes his nam-shub very difficult tounderstand. If he was such a nice guy, why did he do the Babel thing?This is considered to be one of the mysteries of Enki. A...
He raised his eyebrows briefly. Since this was the only plausible way of moving something that huge, he didn’t consider it worthy of an extended answer.
He is full of adrenaline, his nerves are shot, and his mind is cluttered up with free-floating anxiety-floating around on an ocean of generalized terror.
He is disappointed because he has solved the problem, and has gone back to the baseline state of boredom and low-level irritation that always comes over him when he’s not doing something that inherent...
He did not seem to grasp something that was clear enough to me and Cord: namely, that there were extras who would beat up avout simply because it was more entertaining than not beating them up—not bec...
He could have kept his money in The Black Sun and made ten million dollars about a year later when it went public, but his mother would have been a street person. So when his mother visits him in the...
He closed his eyes and shook his head. I am not one of those who believes that God made the world and walked away from it, that He has no further choices to make, no ongoing presence in the world. I b...
Half of the castle has, at one point or another, been burned down by a combination of Barbary corsairs, lightning bolts, Napoleon, and smoking in bed.