All duty is inconvenient to a greater or lesser degree, or it would not be duty.
Algunos dicen que la bipolaridad es una adaptación útil. Cuando las cosas van mal, te deprimes, te retiras, conservas energía. Cuando las cosas van bien, te mueves con gran energía. —¿Y
A speech with magical force. Nowadays, people don't believe in these kinds of things. Except in the Metaverse, that is, where magic is possible. The Metaverse is a fictional structure made out of code...
A more down-to-earth project run by the Soviets had determined that eight square meters of algae—an expanse of pond scum about the size of two ping-pong tables—was needed to keep a single human suppli...
A man dressed in a radiant white uniform stands below the ragged maw of the jetway holding his hands downwards with fluorescent orange sticks in them, like Christ dispensing mercy on a world of sinner...
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 gazebo on top of a welding rig was how Yul might have described it, if only he had been here.
In the background she can hear the shopping carts performing their clashy, anal copulations.
You should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake' ...
After that it's just a chase scene.
The ability to kill someone is basically a mental stance, and not a question of physical means; a serial killer armed with a couple of feet of clothesline is far more dangerous than a cheerleader with...
Kaffeeklatsch.
Spoken like a true Nipponese, Enoch says bitterly. You never change. Please make me understand what you are saying. What of the man who cannot get out of bed and work, because he has no legs? What of...
So through no rational process whatsoever I was the leader, And I had no idea what I was going to say.
Sline: (1) In Fluccish of the late Praxic Age and early Reconstitution, a slang word formed by truncation of baseline, which is a Praxic commercial bulshytt term. It appears to be a noun that turned i...
She’s not a shy person. Her body language is eloquent enough: I am aware that men are in the habit of looking at whatever women happen to be nearby, in the hopes of deriving enjoyment from their physi...
She had grown tired of the pouffy floating hair of zero gravity and, after a few weeks of clamping it down with baseball caps, had figured out how to make this shorter cut work for her. The haircut ha...
Research on the long-term effects of spaceflight suggested that women were less susceptible to radiation damage than men. They were smaller on average, requiring less space, less food, less air. And s...
Readers of this memo will be disappointed to know that Bong-Bong Gad (sic), designer/owner/driver/proprietor of the vehicle, anticipated the inevitable there but for THE GRACE OF GOD go I witticism by...
On the social front it was a question of Amistics, which was a term that had been coined ages ago by a Moiran anthropologist to talk about the choices that different cultures made as to which technolo...