Simulacrum
From the discomfort of truth there is only one refuge and that is ignorance. i do not need to be comfortable, and i will not take refuge. i demand to KNOW.
Cordite-reeking
You’re wrong, Hand, I said quietly. I’d love to have access to all this shit you believe. I’d love to be able to summon someone who’s responsible for this fuckup of a creation. Because then I’d be abl...
You know what you stupid fucking conspiracy assholes just don’t get? No one is that well organized.
You know God does not manifest Himself, Halgan shouted. That is also heresy. The Revelation is not corporeal. You know this. Why do you persist in this perverted speech?I like perverted. Maybe you wou...
When I looked at the curve of her hips and thighs on the window shelf, I could feel the way she had writhed back against me so clearly it was almost virtual.
Well than try giving it some thought, why don’t you? Apply that finely tutored mind of yours to all those bullshit hero-with-a-high-destiny legends you people are so fucking fond of telling one anothe...
They exploit, and deal, and shift ground constantly, but for all that you can get used to them. You can get used to their gleaming company towers and their nanocopter security, their cartels and their...
There are ruins, steeped in shadow, and a bloodred sun going down in turmoil behind distant hills. Overhead soft-bellied clouds panic toward the horizon like whales before the harpoon, and the wind ru...
People envy me, people hate me. It is the price of success.’ This was news to me. People hate me on a dozen different worlds and I’ve never considered myself a successful man.
On Harlan’s World, you don’t see many mandroids. They’re expensive to build, compared to a synthetic or even a clone, and most jobs that require a human form are better done by those organic alternati...
It seems lies come very easily to your race. They lie to those they lead, to their mates and fellows no matter how close- drawn, even to themselves if it will make the world around them more bearable....
Is it a wolf I hear,Howling his lonely communionWith the unpiloted stars,Or merely the self importance and servitudeIn the bark of a dog?How many millenia did it take,Twisting and torturingThe pride f...
First the hypnos, pulsing their sonocodes until the dull gray ceiling grew abruptly fascinating with fishtail swirls of light, and meaning drained out of the universe like dirty water from a sink. And...
But this was worse than personal. This was about Louise, alias Anemone, cut up on a surgical platter, about Elizabeth Elliott stabbed to death and too poor to be resleeved, Irene Elliott, weeping for...
Around us, the tourist crowd ebbed and flowed like the multicolored idiot tide it was.
Anyway, it’s a crock of shit. Simple-minded post-quranic desert Islam propaganda. No one in the modern Muslim world with two brain cells to rub together believes that shit any more. And who wants a fu...
Any synthetic intelligence can be independent only within the boundaries of the U.N. regulatory charter. The charter is hardwired into my systems, so in effect I have as much to fear from the police a...
And like Quell says,