Already on course for the door, I made no attempt to detour in their direction, and this must have occurred to them only when I was halfway across the hall. Two of them drifted over to intercept me wi...
Една вечер, когато се бяхме напили, Сара ми каза: „Жените са расата, Так. Такава е истината. Мъжете са само мутанти с повече мускули и двойно по-малко нерви. Машини за бой и чукане. Собствените ми пре...
We’re all just feeding off the stored fat of a dream gone bad. You want soy sauce on that?
Yukio was angry because he was. Because he was an asshole male with delusions of status just like Dad, just like the rest of them, and I’d humiliated him in front of Plex and Tanaseda. Because he was...
Your helmet is red hot, Ringil told him. And watched as the man screamed, dropped his ax and grabbed his helm with both hands, screamed again as his fingers touched the metal and melted from the heat,...
You wouldn’t have to be insane to do these things. You’d just have to have a goal and be determined to attain it. Let’s get this straight, early on. What we’ve seen aboard Horkan’s Pride are not the s...
You know nothing of me. Through clenched teeth. . You’ve fucked me, that’s all. Well, that’s a crowded hole you’re in, darling. And us humans, we’re a lying, dissembling bunch, remember. Doesn’t pay t...
What we thought of as personality was no more than the passing shape of one of the waves in front of me. Or, slowing it down to more human speed, the shape of a sand dune. Form in response to stimulus...
Wardani had donned the emotional equivalent of a vacuum suit, the only response left in the human armoury when the moral parameters of the outside environment have grown so outrageously variable that...
Two hundred and fifty years is a long time ... Do you have any concept of what happens to emotional bonds over such a period? .... No. Your life experience cannot possibly encompass what it is to love...
The eyes, set in jet skin, were a startling pale green. Kadmin had freed himself from conventional perceptions of the physical. In an earlier age, he would have been a shaman; here, the centuries of t...
The city you speak of will be built—will stand in all its undeserved serenity—on the bones of a billion unjust, unremembered deaths. Its foundation stones are mortared with the blood of ten thousand s...
Take what is offered and that must sometimes be enough.
Potential, and the will to deploy it. That's all magic is in the end, you know.
Part of running a successful tyranny is knowing when and how to let your subjects off the leash, and at this the First Families were accomplished masters.
No. A look of dawning comprehension. Ah, that. The regret, is that what you’re talking about? This sense of loss? Yes, he always talked about that, too. It’s a mortal thing, as far as I can tell. The...
No way. You won’t catch Notley working weekends. Calls it the American disease, working all the hours God sends you.
Most people don’t like to think things through. Too much effort. They’d rather have the edited visceral highlights.
Machines cost money to build. Raw materials cost money to extract. But people? She made a tiny spitting sound. You can always get some more people. They reproduce like cancer cells, whether you want t...
I’d rather you didn’t smoke in here.’ ‘Kawahara, I’d rather you died of an internal haemorrhage, but I don’t suppose you’ll oblige me.