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...
Several tech-types; heavily idealistic about total access they all sailed close to anarchistic beliefs, believing all information should be free.
Careered
Wherever you find human misery, you find lawyers, either causing it or making a profit from it.
Violence: the brutish solution of the ignorant who know they could never get enough people to vote for them.
Typical case, educated way, way beyond her IQ, with ambition stronger than ability. She’s just another cause fascist, son, and that’s the worst kind; they always know they’re right. Anyone who dissent...
Thoale alone knows why suicides are so fond of jumping off cliffs and bridges; they wouldn’t if they knew what that trip’s like.
They used a bazooka to shoot the Warrior Angel, it was spectacular ineffective.
There it was, plain and beautifully simple, five generations down the line. :)
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...
The dead hand of society’s inertia and the financial interest of the elite minority hold us back as a species. They govern us so they can continue to govern us.
That was the trouble with freethinkers, they had overactive imaginations that made them uncertain.
Random Acts of Kindness, he said. You need some in your life. Everybody does.No, I don't have much of a rak, but hey, this is the twenty-third century, you can get anything fixed if you have enough mo...
Our society is mature. Change is instability. That is why every institution we have resists change. To maintain the status quo is our sole objective in life.
Most people who have failed miserably in life itself have one last resort left available to them. They become politicians.
I’m impressed. That is one big mother of a tax office.’ ‘They say that the Captain has an agreement with the Skylords, that if you haven’t settled your taxes when you seek Guidance, the Skylords will...
I’m an appropriate companion personality for a girl your age, young missy. We spent all night ransacking that library to see what I should be like. You got any idea what it’s like watching eight milli...
It’s not a god he worships, it’s the devil.
It was always a puzzle, given that he spent his days achieving nothing, that he had no time for anything.
It took eight generations of cousins marrying to produce you