Careering
The sun was boiling, the swaying was uncomfortable, the horse stank. She felt wonderful
People will look at you, what you’re doing, rewriting the regiment rule book, and they’ll want to do the same for themselves. That’s when you’ll start to run into resistance. That’s where the politics...
Meteorites fell through the night sky like a gentle sleet of icefire,
Kelly was starting to have serious second thoughts about the whole assignment. Like all war correspondents, she supposed. Being on the ground was very different to sitting in the office anticipating b...
Interpretation through the filters of ideology has always been one of our race's curses.
In any decent civilization, healthcare is a right, not a privilege.
I doubt any system that won’t reveal its purpose, that only offers promises of a better tomorrow.
Hindsight must surely be the most useless function of the human brain, torturing yourself over the unalterable past.
Funny how different life could be, so many things that make you take one route instead of another. If only we could live them all.
Forty-two. Excuse me? I queried. Old joke, the cardinal admitted. The number of angels that can actually dance on a pinhead.
Don’t worry. The chaps train for civil disobedience suppression. We’ll crack a few heads, chuck some of the would-be revolutionaries in jail, and the rest will slink off back to their hovels and drink...
Code could do anything. Code could save the world.
Bollocks! Bollocks, bollocks.
Alert> Five Chikoya approaching, open assault formation. Multiple target acquisition. Armed> Disruptor pulse. Maximum power rating. Sequential fire. U-shadow update: landing exit capsule behind Buildi...
We all have a bad morning after at some point in our lives.
True life is the understanding and support of other people, of selflessness, of charity, of kindness.
Three hundred and twenty-eight wormholes were opened in unison. They were small, all of them measuring a metre and a half wide. Just enough for a ten-megatonne warhead to pass through. The wormholes c...
This universe and all it is connected with will come to an end. Entropy carries us towards the inevitable omega point, that is why entropy exists.
The ubiquitous semi-sentient utility routine running in her macrocellular clusters responded immediately by unfolding a basic array of mental icons, slender lines of blue fairy light that superimposed...