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...
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...
If you want to understand how a government works, the laws tell you.
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.
HR?''Human Resources.''In Brussels that kind of department is referred to as the Office for Personkind Enablement. Resources sounds like something you dig out of the ground.
Genuine scientific progress is a slow climb, which requires a stable society to support thinkers and theorists over many generations.
Always demand proof of nirvana before you start following messiahs who’re selling it to you. Those guys don’t exactly have the greatest track record in the universe.
Alien Affairs. Bad name I always thought, makes it sound like they're shagging them rather than investigating them.
Ah, that’s the Jaguar-Chevrolet 2251 T-bird, the convertible
He said that for wickedness to succeed all it takes is for decent people to do nothing.
Babies are God’s way of persuading parents to have teenagers.
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...
Would being completely alone in a universe bring a sensation of closing limitations or infinitely expanding horizons with associated loneliness?
Without education and understanding, the barbarians would have outnumbered us and swarmed the city gates a long time ago.
Why do they both refer to your deity while mating? Tochee inquired as it munched on some rehydrated cabbage. Is it a request for a blessing?
This must be the sixth realm, the nameless void. Entropy is the only lord here. We will all bow down before him in the end.
They would have thought me mad, even Kristabel. Flying carriages. People who live forever. Hundreds of inhabited worlds. Machine servants instead of genistars. Cities where Makkathran would be naught...
Sometimes you have to do what’s wrong in order to do what’s right.
It’s only going to take another week of this and we’re going to have the mother of all humanitarian crises on our hands. The Independencies are already living on food stocks that aren’t going to last...