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My colleague Bruce Sterling has defined a thriller as a science fiction novel that includes the President of the United States. If you agree with Bruce's definition, the size of the SF market suddenly becomes very much larger.

remember that "layman" is just a polite word for "idiot.

anchored ships and over the shallow bar had been dangerous, but

Kim smiled. "Would I give you the satisfaction of seeing that?

L1, by process of elimination," Luisa said drily, and laughed. "You space people love to count down, I know your ways." "It's

All birds are bastards.

He thinks that there has been some routine polite conversation along the way, but there is never any point in actually monitoring that kind of thing.

The real battle was, you know, on the Internet. Social media.

but not subjecting him to the tiresome demands of polite social interaction.

The big red-handled blade switch on the wall of the mad-scientist lab.

the Sword fled, and would have vanished utterly if the Pope had not granted them refuge in the ranks of the Teutonic Knights.

black chariot of pepperoni fire.

they didn't even try to arrest her in a gentlemanly way.

KETCH, JACK: Name given to executioners.

ENOCH ROUNDS THE CORNER JUST as the executioner raises the noose above the woman's head.

The rest is drowned out by sound breaking in through his earphones, coming in from Reality:

Your broker is a half-naked blue-and-orange crypto-anarchist?

he was a horse-fancier, and so this part of the anecdote was never related without many details concerning this horse's ancestry, which was more distinguished than that of most human beings)

Well, thank you for making it so clear why I should be miserable," Randy says forbearingly.

What's it like working for Mr. Freeze?" "I was going to say the Penguin," Dinah said, "but people in Seattle don't carry umbrellas.

What the fuck do you want? Y.T., I'm sorry about this. But something's going on. Something big time. I'm keeping one eye on a big biker named Raven. The problem with you hackers is you never stop working. That's what a hacker is, Hiro says.

could jab my thumb with it and draw blood. The brown smear across the top of this page can be tested in any twenty-first-century DNA lab. Compare

Markus came back on the air. "Jiro and Dinah, you must be ready to fire the main propulsion at apogee—

He is flitting and hopping about in the lobby like a sparrow whose nest had just been blown down in a windstorm.