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Nanofic: The (Very) Condensed Guide to the Etiquette of the Court of Courts
“Whatever you may do at home, do not, under any circumstances, kneel. It is an insult that will kill you. Also, don’t bow any deeper than forty-five degrees, stand up straight while you talk, do look...
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HAPPY FUN PROBE
If someone had run the linguistic corpus from the first scout probe, the one that it had derived from the planetary data network, past some competent sophont linguists, they might have pointed out the...
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We Save Your Soul!
…for later reloading in the event of accidental death. Backups maintained at 283 separate locations throughout the Associated Worlds. Absolute confidentiality assured. Call today on 1-800-NOT-DEAD....
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Project Phoenix
“Phoenix Zero, you are blue-lighted across the board and launch commit. The clock is running. Good luck.” And then the sky was bright with nuclear fire. - excerpt from a dream I had last night,...
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The word which is commonly translated as “Imperials”…
… referring to any of the Empire’s citizen-shareholders, is valmiríän in the original Eldraeic; curiously, it is not cognate at all to that nation’s formal name. From its roots, it could have the...
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“Meat-for-brains here…
…just tried to hijack a starship that he has no idea how to pilot by pointing a gun at the head of the immortal guy who doesn’t need a body. This is only a very tiny step on the smart side of, say,...
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Technological Catch-22
“If we had a translocator, we’d have a mass reactor… which could power a translocator.” Filed under: Snippet Tagged: catch-22, random snippet, writing
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Snark of the Day
“Yes, the Ley Accords do consider using ecocidal weapons on garden worlds a more serious issue than the self-genocidal use of strategic nucleonic weapons. That’s because, in the big picture, the sort...
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Quote
“A gentleman,” Olbria said firmly, “is always polite. Even to his zombies.” Filed under: Snippet Tagged: p-zombies
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An Opening
Not a fic-a-day – although I’m trying to get back to those now I’m almost done editing and publishing – just the opening to something I’m working on… Her Divine Majesty’s Star Station Eádínah’s Bower...
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Randomness
It’s been a while, so here, have something that just rolled through my head today: “Get hence, wretch!”, I said. “You are no fit nemesis for the lady. An Excellence’s _mélith_ merits equivalent weight;...
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Random Thought of the Day
“What makes the Blood of Tyrants and the Sanguinary Enforcers of the Liberty Ethic extremists is that they divide the entire population of the universe into two categories: people who respect the...
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SFFS: Balance
Behold, my first snippet – plucked from my deep internal slush/ideas pile – for Science Fiction & Fantasy Saturday, an authorial web-ring I’ve seen here and there in the past, and thought I might...
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Random Cut Snippet
“Selfish? You try livin’ in a world where persuasion and trade and generally makin’ nice with folks are the only ways to get anything, and see how long you can pull that kind of attitude off....
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First, As You Will
“The life of my patient is his to dispose of; he is its proprietor. I shall not desert any life for which its proprietor wishes to give battle; nor shall I force the struggle upon any who wish to quit...
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Salvage Law…
…is what I have been thinking about this morning, seeing as it’s likely to come up before all that much longer in ongoing writing. So here, have a snippet that, I think, illuminates some cultural...
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Cyber Monday Sale
IT IS CYBER MONDAY! So, I’m having the obligatory sale! If you don’t yet have my first book – a second is expected to follow early in the new year – now’s your chance to pick up the Kindle e-book for...
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Clarke’s Third Law
Or, A Typical (Paraphrased) Exploratory Service Response To The Embarrassing Problem of Xenodeism: “So you’re some sort of gods?” “That depends.” “Depends?” “If you mean: do we possess assorted skills,...
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Technepraxic
“Progress begins with someone saying: ‘There has to be a better way to do this’. This, then, must be the basis of techneprax morality: never to fail to ask that question.” - prologue, Eternal Progress,...
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Technepraxic #2
“Only the smallest, least enlightened minds accept the limits of the currently possible. Indeed, only small minds accept the limits of the possible, where greater minds strive to expand its reach. Some...
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