It's always quicker and easier to tear things down than it is to build them back up again.
Ian chuckled. You know what the world’s greatest oxymoron is? Happily married, Sid said wearily.
Hope doesn’t die just because a life is lost, or even a million lives.
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.
Formal address wrongness. Much sorriness. Greetings ritual observance.
Every Navy warship assigned to the Sol protection fleet flashed in towards Earth, knitting together in a defensive formation that extended out beyond lunar orbit. Weapons platforms that had spent deca...
Back in the day, surplus harvests or an excess of rare minerals had been quietly shoved out into oblivion, assisting the market price, reaping bigger profits for the financial sectors at the expense o...
As if we didn't have enough weapons already. But that's human nature, we've always got to go one better, to increase the terror another notch.
War is the result of total irrationality combined with conflict of interest.
There could well be two alien species out there, both with weapons and technology so far ahead of ours it might as well be magic. Thank you, Sir Arthur, Ozzie muttered. Nigel grinned at his old friend...
Code could be written to solve the problems. Code could do anything. Code could save the world.
You think that isn't you? You believe you are noble and kind? Do you know how the dominance works?
Walk the poor bloke past the station doctor, get the certificate signed, lock him up in a padded room, and supply him with good drugs
Vance closed the link and stamped off to biolab-1, too furious to say anything more. He didn’t even ask the Lord for wisdom and guidance, which was remiss of him, but the Lord would understand the fra...
This desperate act was inevitable. This act is a direct result of the oppression, both political and economic, imposed by our government. You crush hope. Yes, you! You destroy opportunity. You eradica...
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
The human race, for all our facets and our institutional stupidity, is something I believe in. I admire our diversity, our stubbornness. The dynamic of conflict is one of our greatest traits.
The game is changing' .. :The game is the same, the stakes are rising.
That’s a huge gamble. We’re long past the time for careful certainty.
So how big an interest have you been taking in the Pilgrimage?’ ‘Big. That idiot Ethan really could trigger the end of the galaxy. I’d have to move.’ ‘How terrible.