His progress was more lateral than forward.
Well, ‘explode’ maybe isn’t the most accurate term. What actually happens is much more interesting.
One day I’d like to visit this planet without having to toss myself down its atmosphere.
I’m sorry,” the groundskeeper said. “Usually the kharhn we feed to the kingsflower are already dead. I never get to see anything live fed to it. This is exciting for me.
That’s what I’d ask you to do: Hope for peace. Because I know that I would love to be able to lay down my weapon and get to being a colonist. Just like you are. Just like I want to be.
The Jenna Situation, as you recalled it now, had been fraught with fraughtiness.
How did you get here, anyway?” “It’s classified.” “I’m close enough to stab you with a fork.
I worked in marketing,” Rachela I said. “Before I was a prophet. After, too, but we didn’t call it that after that point.
You can be happy anywhere, if you have the right point of view. And the ability to ignore the smell of an entire planet.
It’s conspiracy mongering.” “I agree. But not all conspiracies crop up because someone forgot to adjust their tinfoil hat, ma’am. Sometimes they’re part of a disinformation campaign.
If memory serves, the last time we met there were also exploding starships,” I said, to Wilson. “That’s odd,” Lowen said. “The last time I saw Harry, there were exploding starships, too.” “It’s coincidental,” Wilson said, looking at Lowen and then at me.
There’s that old saying: Fast, cheap, and good, you get to pick two. The two you just picked are fast and good. Cheap has just left the building.
I love her more than I actually express in words – an irony for a writer – and am every day genuinely amazed I get to spend my life with her.
Moeller also immediately discounted insults about competence, as the incompetent never question their competence about anything.
High-risk, high-reward situations where the path to success isn’t laid out but has to be cut by machetes through a jungle filled with poison toads.
I live the life I live, and it’s the only life I have. No one else is out there in the universe living my alternate lives, and even if they were, I wouldn’t be worrying about them because I have my life to live here, now.
Pope was aware there were other ways to get more diplomatic respect than bigger guns, of course. But while other diplomatic maneuvers sometimes worked and sometimes didn’t, ultimately a big damn gun always commanded respect.
Pleasure doing business with you, Chad,” Holloway said, setting down the infopanel. “Please die in a fire, Jack,” Bourne said.
It takes a certain kind of dog to willingly demote himself from alpha dog, and that dog was Carl. Holloway would have to speak to him about it, for what little good it would do, Carl being a dog and all.
And before that, there was, oh, I don’t know, editors experiencing demonic possessions and devouring lagging midlist writers. It’s always something.