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Most histories are written by the winners of conflicts, but those written by the losers—if they survive—are often more interesting.
flowmetal face was a burnished blank oval, like a mirror entirely devoid of expression until he decided to form the metallic polymer film into a range of mimicked emotions, like ancient theater masks. Through optic threads implanted in his facial membrane, he admired the iridescent fountains
Human but better. no drawbacks. k, cool.
He sketched a deprecating Buddislamic symbol in the sand,
Selim made a pact with himself and with Buddallah
her shuttle now landed on a dense section of the jungle canopy that had been paved over with a polymer to seal and fuse the branches and leaves into a solid mass. To enable the trees to receive adequate moisture and gas exchange, the polymer was porous, synthesized from jungle chemicals and organics.
“How could he possibly turn down the man who saved Salusa Secundus from the cymeks? Remember that, Vergyl, if you ever wish to win the affections of a young lady.” “I need to save a planet just to have a girlfriend?”
There is a certain hubris to science, a belief that the more we develop technology and the more we learn, the better our lives will be. —TLALOC, A Time for Titans
Following a bucolic derivative of Navachristianity, the people of Poritrin had outlawed computerized harvesting apparatus and restored their society to humbler roots.
Long ago, Sajak Bludd had been the first League nobleman to introduce actual slavery as a means of making large-scale agriculture viable. That Poritrin lord had justified his act by choosing only those who owed a debt to humanity, mostly Buddislamic cowards who had fled instead of fighting against the repressive Titans and thinking machines.
If they hadn’t been afraid to help defend humanity, Sajak Bludd said, their added numbers might have been enough to turn the tide of war. Working the fields was a sma...
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Opportunities are a tricky crop, with tiny flowers that are difficult to see and even more difficult to harvest. —ANONYMOUS
Religion, time and time again, brings down empires, rotting them from within. —IBLIS GINJO, early planning for the Jihad
Dhartha led a party of six across a ridge of packed powder sand that held their footprints as if they were kisses in the dust.
This is my failing I'm sure, but...what does this mean?! Short-lived? Deep? Faint? Who kisses dust and why?
Look at the destructive potential,” Holtzman said, looking at the unruffled nobles without even considering the dead and injured slaves. “We can be thankful at least that no one was hurt.”
Would Serena respect him now because of his newfound understanding? Or did she still pine after her lost lover, the man who had fathered her child?
why is this portrayed as an either/or? A woman can respect a guy and not love him, whether she loves someone else or not. Sigh.
In those days he had been a spiritual human named Arn Eklo, philosopher and orator who had fallen to the diversions of sexual pleasures. In his shame and dismay, he had met Kwyna and her metaphysical scholars who wanted to eliminate all distractions in order to develop their thinking powers.
Great, sex inducing shame. Just what i want in my scifi. Dune was so sex positive , damn it.
He drew a deep breath, not taking his eyes from the planet, which shimmered through a thin veil of his tears. He had a duty to do. Xavier transmitted his order to the fleet. “Proceed with full-scale atomic bombardment.”
