For the Ants now held the world. They had made of the world one building, or so he had presumed, although he could not really know.
I find your lack of faith…disturbing…
(or, given the longevity of this thread)
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so…
(from the same guy as above)
Space is big. Like really, REALLY big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.
You fly through space to the Moon, hmm?
The Moon had had a long time to push itself through a sphere an inch and a half in diameter. Probably it had not taken more than a few millennia. Afterward there had been nothing but this crumpled ball of waste, too light and rigid for gravity to compress it further. For three billion years the Earth had been moonless.
You guys got the Moon, we should get Titan. It’s even steven!
And now to clean up Titan! Each of us who are going is writing one of these reports, for we know that we may not come back.
Uh, ma’am, it has become too much of a chore for me to clean out my wrinkles each day. Is it true that stem cells may fight the aging process?
I seem to remember,” said Luke, “that the aging process in man can be compared to the program running out in a space probe. Once the probe has done its work it doesn’t matter what happens to it.”
“Time got lost.”
“It’s more than rapid aging.”
Some Alphas that I work with can do things that will amaze you. Others, the angry, the lost, and the afraid, have abilities that frankly can be terrifying.
I’m really awfully glad I’m a Beta , because I don’t work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid.
Six-beta-nine, six-beta-nine, we have a live transmission from Mr. Cohaagen.
-“BB”-
“Throw in Barrayar’s need to increase its population to survive, at least as pressing as Beta’s to limit its to the same end, and your peculiar gender-based inheritance laws, and, well, here we all are.”
He looked like any blond, brainless hero, only he wasn’t brainless and he was no hero.
It wasn’t much of a war, but it was better than no war at all.
I’ll make it up as I go. That’s what Grandpa Rick does. That’s what heroes do.
i am a soldier, not a cleft-chinned, barrel-chested hero of a subetheric, tridimensional thriller
I was born a Peacekeeper soldier. I’ve always been one among many. A member of a division, a platoon, a unit, a team. I’ve never been on my own, John.
“As you know, it takes the enormous energy output of the Authority’s generator in Livermore to create even the smallest confinement sphere. In fact, that is why the Peace Authority has banned all energy-intensive usages, to safeguard this secret of keeping the Peace."
The secret to victory, the violent path to peace.
“My mother said violence never solves anything.” “So?” Mr. Dubois looked at her bleakly. “I’m sure the city fathers of Carthage would be glad to know that.”