Nyman’s lips tightened to almost anal proportions.
Is Sullivan at Bay City Central right now?
Ringil, preparing to hand out some straightforward reassurance, felt mischief sparkle through him instead. It was the call of impending risk, he knew, the itch to action—and a long building irritation...
I hesitated, pretending to weigh it up. What’s the deal in the bar? Ha ha ha. Someone had programmed a laugh into the robot. It sounded like a fat man drowning in syrup.
I’ve talked to the lawyers.’ ‘Did you disinfect afterwards?
Face the facts. Then act on them. It’s the only mantra I know, the only doctrine I have to offer you, and it’s harder than you’d think, because I swear humans seem hardwired to do anything but. Face t...
Well, fuck them.Make it personal.
Served up through the id-feeding Technicolor TV drip that passed for national news coverage, he was just new dosage in a regime already 150 years screen-ingrained.
I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children or you read books for adults.
Lies are a precious currency—you have to be careful how and where you spend them.
She and Torres have history all over the place. Stuck together in the data like tissues on a lap dance cabin floor.
Fact remains—launch determines orbit, and Torres got a launch in life that put him low and in decay from the start. You just give it time and watch the sky.
Rage at injustice is a forest fire — it jumps all divides,even those between generations.
You thought perhaps you would drink it away, the plague? Was that the plan?I thought perhaps I'd try to die drunk.Such ambition. And this from a dragon-slayer.
Childishness is a common enough sin amongst humans. Perhaps we should not be so quick to judge.
But then that’s humans for you—never can trust the stroppy fuckers to live up to the stereotypes you assign.
Religion’s just politics with higher stakes, Tak. You know that, you saw it in action on Sharya. No reason these people can’t do the same when it comes to the crunch. These people are sheep. They’ll d...
His companions stared at me like frightened children as I came down the stairs, like I’d come down to them on Pachamama’s Own Ladder to the Firmament—some dark spirit too tarnished and twisted with si...
Warden Sullivan, you’re not taking this in the spirit it’s intended. I am very concerned to know who you sold me to. I’m not going to go away, just because you have some residual scruples about client...
Wardani had donned the emotional equivalent of a vacuum suit, the only response left in the human armory when the moral parameters of the outside environment have grown so outrageously variable that a...
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