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Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being there … the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.
The other side of my brain, perhaps not quite as pinched, would argue that it doesn’t matter what name you give to a computer, it’s a pile of memory crystals, logic banks, nuts and bolts … If you program it to be Genghis Khan, it is a tactical computer, even if its usual function is to monitor the stock market or control sewage conversion.
Heaven was a lovely, unspoiled Earth-like world; what Earth might have been like if men had treated her with compassion instead of lust.
We were remarkably healthy victims of a terminal disease, trying to cram a lifetime of sensation into a half of a year.
‘Surviving is a virtue in a private.’ Couldn’t resist it. ‘But an officer should provide gallant example. Go down with the ship. Stride the parapet as if unafraid.’
Sitting here in a bar with an asexual cyborg who is probably the only other normal person on the whole goddamned planet.
A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers.
A Greek phalanx must have looked pretty impressive, but it wouldn’t do too well against a single man with a flamethrower.
