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blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.

In my book, though, they should have changed Unidentified Flying Objects to Mysterious Otherworldly Flying Objects—or MOFOs. This name was more accurate after all. And I'd give my last dollar to hear TV reporters using the new acronym.

If I had to use a term other than UFO, I preferred another new term, UAV, which stood for Unidentified Aerial Vehicle.

Hard science fiction. Mind-blowing, breathtaking, hard science fiction.

Growing up," he said, "my favorite author was Isaac Asimov, the science fiction writer. Have any of you ever read the short story The Last Answer?" There

short book in 2020, written by a man named Gordon Chang, entitled The Great U.S.—China Tech War. This

And innocent people who feel threatened hire bodyguards. Guilty people hire mercenaries.

wearing metal in his mouth

Isaac Asimov, the science fiction writer. Have any of you ever read the short story The Last Answer?

he had no time to waste. He guessed he had been out for as long as a few

would be to set up an artificial matrix into which she can transfer

monogamous," said Osborne with a smile. "A good quality in an alien AI.

how maddeningly cryptic the AI can be.

John McPhee's 1989 book The Control of Nature, for

hate is a hard thing to sustain. Grief isn't. Grief is something that can stay with you for a very long time

we seemed to possess a similar worldview: slightly jaded, fiercely independent ...

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any treat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

Prose this bad can only occur when the author is trying to hide something. A theoretical physicist like Sheldon Lee Glashow cannot afford to write in the unreadable prose of the social sciences. He needs to communicate exceptionally complex truths in as simple and clear a language as possible.

The author of The Female Eunuch had only dealt with trans issues in depth once in her career. In her 1999 book The Whole Woman Germaine Greer devoted a ten-page chapter ('Pantomime Dames') to her contention that people who were born men could not be classed as women.

clear that the Bell Curve controversy will never be fought on the basis of the facts. These are too uncomfortable to be allowed to roam freely in the intellectual air. And

In the place of religion came the ever-inflating language of 'human rights' (itself a concept of Christian origin).

The plague did not lead to Europe's economic collapse. Rather, Europe's currency-driven economic collapse led to the plague.

Her nickname during her latter years editing the Chronicle had been satnav because she would happily tell anyone where to go.