That’s right. People. It’s all people. People and their stupid fucking groups. Show me an individual decision maker whose decisions have harmed me, and I’ll melt his stack to slag. Show me a group wit...
Tell me something, Gradual—back in Hellas, do they categorize the triads as organized crime? I paused to let the insult sink in. Because over here in the Gash, if someone inside the familias andinas w...
Something was pushing me, something that had very little to do with the look the Mongol had given me. Something dark that had spread its wings on the low-key misery of the cabin, something uncontrolle...
Perspective.’ He nodded and swung an arm out over his property. ‘You see that tree. Just beyond the tennis courts.’ I could hardly miss it. A gnarled old monster taller than the house, casting shade o...
Or maybe that was just the swiftly gathering sense of motion that had me now, the drug-like grip of a decision taken and what it meant.
No hagas juicios en tres dimensiones de lo que sólo puedes ver en la pantalla de un televisor.
Men were like blades, they would all break sooner or later, you included. But you looked around at the men you led, and in their eyes you saw what kind of steel you had to hand, how it had been forged...
Machine idiolect. It doesn’t matter how sophisticated they get, they still end up sounding like a playgroup learning box. I sighed and looked directly ahead at the slice-of-virtual-life holos on the w...
Like the Sharyan resistance in general, they weren’t overly imaginative—which in the end proved their downfall when faced with the Envoys—but they weren’t any kind of pushover, either. We’d all develo...
Like so much of what goes on in the Gash, the overall aim is consumer tranquillity, not truth.
It was the single forgiving phrase in the syntax of weaponry I had strapped about me. The rest were unequivocal sentences of death. The
If they asked how I died tell them: Still angry.
I twitched a smile, resisting the temptation to kick his teeth down his throat, and folded myself into the deck chair.
I am Friend to Carrion Crows and Wolves. I am Carry Me and Kill with Me, and Die with Me Where the Road Ends. I am not the Honeyed Promise of Length of Life in Years to Come, I am the Iron Promise of...
Do I look like a fucking slave to you? he asked them. And though, finally, they would bring him down with sheer weight of numbers, none who heard him ask that question lived to see the dawn.
And though, finally, they would bring him down with sheer weight of numbers, none who heard him ask that question lived to see the dawn.
You’ll always have morons like that, swallowing belief patterns whole so they don’t have to think for themselves.
You’d think, given a planet nine-tenths covered in water and a solar system with no other habitable biospheres, that people would be careful with that real estate.
You don’t trust me?’ ‘Now you come to mention it, no. But that isn’t it.
Where is the voice that said altered carbon would free us from the cells of our flesh? The vision that said we would be angels.