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Pete is clearly mildly perturbed by this, as so he should be: his faith doesn’t have much room for sanguinary magic, unless you count holy communion.
The Rhesus Chart (2014)
Well, incoming fire has right of way, as they say.
The Delirium Brief (2017)
She may be mad, he realizes abruptly. Not clinically insane, just at odds with the entire universe. Locked into a pathological view of her own role in reality.
Accelerando (2005)
Unfortunately, it appeared that she was going to be around when they learned the hard way that interstellar wars of aggression were much easier to lose than to win.
Singularity Sky (2003)
We’re up the highway from Colorado Springs. The holy rollers are big in Colorado. Mostly they’re harmless, ’long as you’re not a young woman in search of an abortion.
The Apocalypse Codex (2012)
The iron law of bureaucracy doesn’t help: everybody working to ensure that the organization continues to pay them a salary, rather than necessarily achieving its objectives.
The Delirium Brief (2017)
Bet you he’s a smart sociopath, the kind that does well in midlevel management, all fur coat and no knickers—and willing to shed blood without a second thought if it’s to defend his position.
The Atrocity Archives (2004)
The turbulent lives of their entrepreneurial ancestors led to grief and angst and adventures, and as Sirhan is fond of observing, an adventure is something horrible that happens to someone else.
Accelerando (2005)
You say paranoia, I say surveillance state. Worried about being tracked by hidden cameras stealthy air-borne remotely piloted vehicles, and chips implanted in your skull? You’re merely a realist.
Rule 34 (2011)
The dirty little secret of the intelligence-gathering job is that information doesn’t just want to be free—it wants to hang out on street corners wearing gang colors and terrorizing the neighbors.
The Jennifer Morgue (2006)
American cops are so heavily militarized these days that the only way I can tell the difference between them and the army is the color of their body armor—that, and the army is less trigger-happy.
The Labyrinth Index (2018)
Can I remember— “I remember lots,” I say. How much of what I remember is true is another matter.
Glasshouse (2006)
You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I’d never have time to do anything else.
Glasshouse (2006)
But who cares?
That is, indeed, the big-ticket question.
The Fuller Memorandum (2010)
“Well…thanks. But I don’t like to make assumptions.”
“Well that’s too bad, because you’re running on false ones.”
The Apocalypse Codex (2012)
I do something I never do in hotel rooms, which is to pick up the TV remote for a purpose other than hammering the “off” button.
The Apocalypse Codex (2012)
I’m not a politician, even though I play-act one when the boss tells me to—I’m allowed to change my mind when my understanding of the facts changes.
The Labyrinth Index (2018)
Time is the one thing money can’t buy.
The Apocalypse Codex (2012)
I’m not one hundred percent clear on the clinical definition of death, but I’m pretty sure that lying trapped in my own unbreathing body meets some of the requirements.
The Fuller Memorandum (2010)
“Is the weather always like this?”
“It could be worse. They could be looking at relocating to Manchester, where the locals are evolving webbed fingers and gill slits.”
The Nightmare Stacks (2016)