Know what's worse than imaginary, Leon?
Hitler had had entirely too brilliant a graphics department, and had understood the power of branding all too well.
Terror should remain the sole prerogative of the state.
It was called dub, a sensuous mosaic cooked from vast libraries of digitalized pop; it was worship, Molly said, and a sense of community.
People who couldn't imagine themselves capable of evil were at a major disadvantage in dealing with people who didn't need to imagine, because they already were. She'd said it was always a mistake, to...
Now the deer moved through snow, snow that blew sideways, frosting the perfectly upright walls of Detroit's dead and monumental heart, vast black tines of brick reaching up to vanish in the white sky...
Case fell into the prison of his own flesh.
Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television.
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.
Secrets...are the very root of cool.
Ghosts are nothing if not capricious.
That’s what money will buy you, in America, Brown had said, firmly. People say Americans are materialistic. But do you know why? Why? asked Milgrim, more concerned with this uncharacteristically expan...
In Heathrow a vast chunk of memory detached itself from a blank bowl of airport sky and fell on him. He vomited into a blue plastic canister without breaking stride.
The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
At another time she asked,'what is a soul?'' No one knows,'I replied; 'but we know it is not the body, and it is that part of us which thinks and loves and hopes'...[and] is invisible...'But if I writ...
When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which...
There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.
Case shuffled into the nearest door and watched the other passengers as he rode. A pair of predatory-looking Christian Scientists were edging toward a trio of young office techs who wore idealized hol...
The future is already here. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.