Any species possessing this kind of knowledge base is best left unannoyed.
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...
Alien Affairs. Bad name I always thought, makes it sound like they're shagging them rather than investigating them.
Purpose; parents being tolerant or exasperated
Babies are God’s way of persuading parents to have teenagers.
You are new to sentience. Your behaviour is still affected by your animal origin.
Would being completely alone in a universe bring a sensation of closing limitations or infinitely expanding horizons with associated loneliness?
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....
We’re on Earth, now, remember. You can do anything you want here as long as you’ve got money.
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
The original castle back in Edinburgh was the seat of Scottish nationalism. It symbolized everything to the diehard believers. Despite all the changes and defeats they endured, the castle stood solid...
The military do so love shiny new technology, there's always so many ways to abuse it.
The game is changing' .. :The game is the same, the stakes are rising.
The balance is the penalty of being human: the danger of allowing yourself to feel. For this we walk a narrow path high above rocky ground. On one side we have the descent into animalism, on the other...
The Silverbird was tracking the Raiel’s gas giant-sized DF spheres as they continued their flight across the star system. Gravity waves spilled out from them with astonishing force, distorting the orb...
That was the trouble with history, Oscar thought: Once the distance had grown long enough, any event could be seen favorably. The true horror faded with time, and ignorance replaced it.
Sometimes you have to do what’s wrong in order to do what’s right.
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.
She couldn't organize an orgy in a brothel.
Ozzie hurriedly loaded in restrictions that would stop the boy wading through porn all night long—