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.
You convinced yourselves we're just a bunch of regular lads who got a bad break in life. Anything else would have cracked your dream open and made you face reality. Illusion is easy. Illusion is the l...
I’ve only been out a few days. I’d forgotten how fucking useless meat bodies are. There’s barely enough neurones to run a walking routine, let alone something complicated like tying your shoelaces up....
Justine watched two azure moons traverse the sparkling smear of Wall stars. They were in very strange orbits. And moving impossibly fast – actually accelerating. ‘Oh my God,’ she gasped. The Raiel’s p...
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...
Laura Brandt knew all about coming out of a suspension chamber.
Weapons science was always kept very close to the government’s chest, receiving the most funds and the least publicity.
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.
Life's a bitch, then you rejuvenate and do it all over again.
Start taking money away from the privileged, and they can turn just as savage as any animal that gets shoved into Philippa’s arena.
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...
The sun was boiling, the swaying was uncomfortable, the horse stank. She felt wonderful
There always has to be a balance between freedom and restriction; that is fundamental to any society. Without law there is anarchy. But too much law, applied rigorously, becomes oppression
Their electronics are still back in the Stone Age.
No human has ever died.
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.
Several tech-types; heavily idealistic about total access they all sailed close to anarchistic beliefs, believing all information should be free.
Killed fifteen men when I was in combat. Yeah, he was a nurse. Couldn’t read the label on the medicine bottle.
Politicians see conspiracies everywhere
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...
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