[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.
The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.
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...
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...
Universal law: data wants to be free.
I grew up on a farm, Ayanna protested. We worked the land. She pulled a face. Well, I helped Dad program the agribots.
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...
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...
Start taking money away from the privileged, and they can turn just as savage as any animal that gets shoved into Philippa’s arena.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. - Tochee
They know what we're planning, and we know what they're planning. But they don't know we know.
Their electronics are still back in the Stone Age.
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.
Always trust in proven survivors.
Politicians see conspiracies everywhere
From small foundations of hope, empires can be built.
Weapons science was always kept very close to the government’s chest, receiving the most funds and the least publicity.
Weapons analysis division,
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.