C. Norton Ever since Mads carved me, he has spoken of the day when he will make me his. Today is no exception. “Your skin will part like apple-flesh,” he tells me, “and the meat beneath is white. Did you know that, Pluto? That inside, you are as white as I?” His fingers tr...
He who has learned how to die has unlearned how to serve. To be ready to die frees us from all bondage and thralldom.MONTAIGNE, Essays Cadmann wiped at his faceplate twice before he realized that the stain was on the inside. He waved to one of the waiting spearmen, got a nod and surfaced. Fresh a...
e. cummings When the Doctor-Master arrived, Freddy had anticipated him. He had library medical tapes already running. The long-fingered almost-Master watched for a few minutes, looked the three humans over, decided Freddy was the male, peeled him, and began comparing him to what he was see...
Above them was Geographic. In geosynch over Camelot, Geographic maintained a web of satellites across the continent and around the planet, and kept careful track of weather and tidal conditions. Geographic, the largest movable object ever created by man, had carried its cargo of frozen human bein...
'Tec Roxanny Gauthier looked. In the wall display, what was rising past the edge of the Ringworld was no more than a blurred point. Gray Nurse was on patrol among the inner comets, far, far away from any Ringworld action. Roxanny asked, "Did you see where it came from?" "S...
By the process of elimination they established that the device giving them orders was in one of two sealed chambers. Diamond tools were made and used to open both. One held a source of light, or something like it, so concentrated as to be damaging. The other held large structures functionally sim...
Why bother? We'll grow it here. -Will Coffey, Hydroponics Of course the strongest men should have been carrying Shimon; but the ones who did were the ~first names Jemmy could remember. Dennis and Denis, Henry and Amnon. Jemmy draped Shimon's nearly ...
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That I could be anything. That I could be.I was, but I wasn’t. I thought I could see, but there was only a bright uniform metallic color of bronze. Sometimes there were faint sounds, but they didn’t mean anything. And when I looked down, I couldn’t see myself.When I tried to move, nothing happene...