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 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.
So government did what government always does when confronted with an opposition which can’t be brought down by fair and legal means. It cheated.
Most people who have failed miserably in life itself have one last resort left available to them. They become politicians.
Meteorites fell through the night sky like a gentle sleet of icefire,
I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would be to doubt the value of life itself.
He never did understand why people admired or even collected art. The greatest human artist could never hope to match what nature did with a single flower.
Greetings, human. We come in peace. Take me to your leader so I may serve you.’‘What?’‘Fried or baked?’‘Uh—?’‘Serve, get it? That’s a first-contact joke.
That’s a huge gamble. We’re long past the time for careful certainty.
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.
Life alone is precious, but conscious thought is the greatest gift the universe offers.
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 always quicker and easier to tear things down than it is to build them back up again.
It took eight generations of cousins marrying to produce you
It is the epitome of entropy, the final enemy of all things.
Is Vermillion damaged?’ ‘No.’ He gave her an anxious grin. ‘Not exactly. Just lost.’ ‘Lost?’ It was possibly an even more worrying answer. How could you get lost flying to a star cluster that measured...