But the television news cameras couldn’t get anywhere near the action, so the coverage mostly consisted of journalists interviewing each other about how little they knew.
But if life were a mellow elementary school run by well-meaning education Ph.D.s, the Deliverator’s report card would say: Hiro is so bright and creative but needs to work harder on his cooperation sk...
Bulshytt: (1) In Fluccish of the late Praxic Age and early Reconstitution, a derogatory term for false speech in general, esp. knowing and deliberate falsehood or obfuscation. (2) In Orth, a more tech...
Better to lurk, observe, and merge,
Better take her uniform -- all that gear, the second MetaCop suggests, notunlewdly.The manager looks at Y.T., trying not to let his gaze travel sinfully up anddown her body. For thousands of years his...
Babel is a Biblical term for Babylon. The word is Semitic; Bab means gate and El means Cod, so Babel means 'Gate of God.' But it is probably also somewhat onomatopoeic, imitating someonewho speaks in...
BMW drivers take evasive action at the drop of a hat, emulating the drivers in the BMW advertisements – this is how they convince themselves they didn’t get ripped off.
At the entrance of this street, a Janissary was pinned to a wooden door by an eight-foot-long spear, which Jack looked on as proving that Yevgeny had passed by there recently.
As we learned in Vietnam, high-powered weapons are so sensorily overwhelming that they are similar to psychoactive drugs.
As soon as you're sure you're right, there's no point in your being here.
As Hiro crests the pass on his motorcycle at five in the morning, the town of Port Sherman, Oregon, is suddenly laid out before him: a flash of yellow loglo wrapped into a vast U-shaped valley that wa...
Apparently the part of the brain that identified things as funny kept running as a background process even when its contributions were useless.
And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.
And I tell you straight out: suspicious this makes me, for what is the cause to bring magic back when it has been replaced by something clearly more serviceable? So the first riddle I put my mind to w...
After about three billion years of this sometimes zany, frequently tedious fugue of carnality and carnage,
Africans carried more genetic diversity within their genomes than non-Africans, as a simple result of the fact that humanity had originated on that continent and spread outward. Non-African races had...
A string of ones and zeroes was not a difficult thing for Bill Gates to distribute, once he’d thought of the idea. The hard part was selling it—reassuring customers that they were actually getting som...
A honeybee cruising for nectar is pretty despite its implicit threat, but the same behavior in a hornet three times larger makes one glance about for some handy swatting material.
A causal domain is just a collection of things linked by mutual cause-and-effect relationships. But isn’t everything in the universe so linked? Depends on how their light cones are arranged. We can’t...
When I saw any of those kinds of beauty I knew I was alive, and not just in the sense that when I hit my thumb with a hammer I knew I was alive, but rather in the sense that I was partaking of somethi...