Resolution, the ability and determination to see things through to the end. However unexpected or disappointing that end turns out to be.
Ozzie hurriedly loaded in restrictions that would stop the boy wading through porn all night long—
National and regional governments were committing vast resources into combating the biosphere breakdown. Social welfare, infrastructure administration, health care, and security — the fields governmen...
Most people who have failed miserably in life itself have one last resort left available to them, they become a politician.
Life alone is precious, but conscious thought is the greatest gift the universe offers.
Lawyers had abolished the simple concept of right and wrong, turning it into degrees of guilt.
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...
I was never a dictator, I just had a huge amount of political clout.
I don’t get it. There’s nothing here. Send your invasion force halfway across the galaxy so they can build a five star ski resort? That’s crazy.
I believe I understand, friend Orion, Tochee said. You are attracted to the young female of your species. Is she one totally fuckable babe?
Fanatics,’ Kandara replied automatically. ‘I’m no longer surprised by what they do, by the misery and suffering they inflict on others. Ideology is a sick soul-meme; it gnaws basic decency away until...
Everybody in the GE used secondaries. It was part of the culture now; socially acceptable. There had been many attempts by the Brussels parliament to legislate against it, and the Tax Bureau certainly...
Ego had brought him to this point, that stupid refusal to quit the case, to simply do the job according to procedure and pick up the monthly salary transfer. Now look where it had brought him, sitting...
Chain of command was always a nominal concept in the division, you trusted people to do their job right.
But to have dreamed the dream is to have flown above the mountains so high in all but deed.
Any species possessing this kind of knowledge base is best left unannoyed.
And it is a terrible irony that our very liberalism allows such danger to flourish. There has to be a time when we say: No more. And thanks to Connexion, that time has now come. As Edmund Burke said—’...
All it’s done is create a separate culture—which, incidentally, never stops whining on about its superiority. That always ends well. Then it is not unusual for such a culture to be subject to attack f...
You are new to sentience. Your behaviour is still affected by your animal origin.
With a degree of privacy assured, I squatted down and crapped out the biopackage I’d brought along. The human anal cavity has traditionally been a smuggler favorite for most of our existence on Earth....