Time, Dr. Freeman? Is it really that time again? It seems as if you only just arrived.
Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.
Time is the fire in which we burn.
“Yes which is precisely the sort of thing we need to know, I mean do people want fire that can be fitted nasally?”
“Yes, and, and, and the wheel. What about this wheel thingy …”
As you can see, it’s pretty hard to describe.
She wasn’t as big as Peewee and her hands were tinier still six fingers, any one of which could oppose the others the way our thumbs can. Her body well it never stayed the same shape so it’s hard to describe but it was right for her.
Yet her features, her curved, undulating lines and graceful, waving tentacles were harmonizing and symphonious to the eye.
“The actual composition of the claw itself is more like stone than it is like horn, cartilage, or bone, and this curved inner section is at least as sharp as most flaked obsidian knives. It’s true they aren’t very long, but for all intents and purposes, he’s got scalpel blades on each finger that are the next best thing to a centimeter and a half in length. That’s why a 'cat in a true killing rage looks so much like a berserk buzz saw. Each individual cut isn’t that deep, but with all six limbs going at once in repeated slashes, well—”
“When a man meets a man, you never know which one will die. But when an animal meets a man, it’s always the animal that dies. I’m on the animals’ side.”
“Isn’t this an animal you’re eating?”
And when they knew the Earth was doomed, they built a ship.
“Now who wants to see the inside of your spaceplane?” Kreshkov asks.
What does God need with a starship?
And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy.
But there was now no man to whom AC might give the answer of the last question. No matter. The answer – by demonstration – would take care of that, too.
For another timeless interval, AC thought how best to do this. Carefully, AC organized the program.
The consciousness of AC encompassed all of what had once been a Universe and brooded over what was now Chaos. Step by step, it must be done.
And AC said, “LET THERE BE LIGHT!”
And there was light----
You can see the future. I can build it.
Anyone who tries to predict the future is inevitably a fool. Present company included. A prophet without a sense of humor is just stupid.
Nothing is impossible, Chase, only improbable. And when you can see into the future and manipulate people into the right places, you can accomplish amazing things.
Nine of her broadside missile tubes, six of her broadside graser mounts, and four of her sidewall generators had been reduced to wreckage, and there was no way in the galaxy he could take on yet another undamaged heavy cruiser and win.
But he and his people had already destroyed three of them, he thought grimly. If they had to, galaxy or no galaxy, they would damned well take out a fourth. Either way, there was no way he was going to abandon Refuge to the animals who had already slaughtered so many, and he had people of his own down there.
She’s tore up plenty, but she’ll fly true.
And the monkey flips the switch.
Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!