The opening of the speech didn't have quite the impact that Bill expected. Bgr had told him that this speech was guaranteed, start to finish. It had been carefully constructed by the Chinger computerized speech-writing program. But there was no shock of recognition electrifying the crowd. &...
“Revolting! Just look how this thing has changed!” groused the bartender, gazing around in horror at the colorful tile, the new light fixtures, the bidets, the vitamin and cologne vending machines. “Used to be just a trough and a thundermug. Oh yeah — and a rubber dispenser that was always broken...
There are the grand transitions as between one age and another, as, for example, when our primordial ancestors, lolling in the reeking and bubbling, sultry swamps of the Pleistocene, looked up and saw an iceberg towering over them, brought on by the sudden transition to an ice age. There are medi...
Since his home planet of Phigerinadon II was a very flat world, and he'd yet to be assigned for battle duty or so-called rest upon a mountainous world, Bill had absolutely nil experience with climbing mountains. However, his Trooper training, to say nothing of his rock-har...
Caine advised the extremely agitated clones. “What did he look like?” “Curly? He looks just like Moe and me, only a whole lot uglier. You know what Curly looks like.” “No. The alien. What did the alien look like?” “The usual....
“You'll be sorry!” “Morituri te salutamus!” “Foreigners!” “Barbarians!” “Poofters!” Ignoring the insults, most of which they could not understand anyway, they marched on to the ...