[sic] his reaction was a sign of civilization. Nobody reaches for a gun anymore, just for his lawyer.
Societies only have waste products while acquiring fresh raw material remains a cheaper option than recycling.
He had used drugs and nanonic supplements to compensate at first, then supplements became replacements, with bones exchanged for carbon-fibre struts. Electrical consumption supplanted food intake. The...
The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.
This is the age of total digitalisation; everything is online always.''Uh huh, and that's why our politicians are pure and clean, and the world works so well, is it? Because everybody knows everything...
Universal law: data wants to be free.
From small foundations of hope, empires can be built.
Ideology is a sick-soul-meme; it gnaws basic decency away until you can self-justify the most extreme acts as worthwhile to further the cause. Any cause.
Like the original concept, the stormrider had rectangular blades, sixteen of them radiating out from the hub, each one a flat lattice of struts twenty-five kilometers long, made from the toughest stee...
I sailed upon oceans, and I thought no challenge could be greater, and now men sail the void between stars. Oh, how I remember them. The constellations burning so bright at night. How could I ever hav...
Their electronics are still back in the Stone Age.
Politicians see conspiracies everywhere
Only people with one short life want to go tearing out into the great unknown with nothing more than a flashlight and a stick to poke the rattlers with.
Start taking money away from the privileged, and they can turn just as savage as any animal that gets shoved into Philippa’s arena.
Weapons science was always kept very close to the government’s chest, receiving the most funds and the least publicity.
The universe was not built on integrity. In the face of weakness, force can and will triumph. All you can do is choose who wields that force. Us or the Starflyer.
Always trust in proven survivors.
They know what we're planning, and we know what they're planning. But they don't know we know.
Weapons analysis division,
Killed fifteen men when I was in combat. Yeah, he was a nurse. Couldn’t read the label on the medicine bottle.
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