“the briefest flash of pale, pale ice over a thin-boned shoulder. Neon caught the red lotus splayed on her elbow and lit… — K.C. Alexander Copy Share Image
“The mind has doors...even as the body does. And when you drill new holes, you tap old hungers.” — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
“For a strained moment, I couldn’t breathe. Couldn’t hear anything but the shattered pulse of a hammered artery struggling to keep up;… — K.C. Alexander Copy Share Image
“I don't believe in socialism but I don't believe in capitalism either. We are small, governments are large, we survive in the… — Maureen F. McHugh Copy Share Image
“You hide things to change what’s real. I make images to create what’s real. Appearance and reality.” — Alex Livingston Copy Share Image
“You think we have a connection because of all the things you've sucked out of my mind by screening, but that isn't… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
“...if you can achieve total intimacy with a piece of cable that costs fifty-nine kopeks, what good is it? How can you… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
“..you can't just break through a person's defenses like thatl the defenses are a part of the person, they are the person.… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
“there’s something unnatural about the feelings we have for people who’ve hurt us. About hate. It’s a connection. We want to know… — Alex Livingston Copy Share Image
“I had recognized her. They had tried to tear her out, but she had lived in me--deep in my heart and secret,… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
“Najia can feel yts subdermal activators against her forearm. Not man not woman not both not neither. Nute. Another way of being… — Ian McDonald Copy Share Image
“We need them? Is that the best reason you can come up with? He laughed, a rasping, mechanical sound. "The kings of… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
“...you think cabling is unnatural--that's what your arguments all come down to. But it's not. Not between people that really fit. Maya,… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
“I want to tell you that it's horrible. I want to tell you that being suppressed makes every moment of existence a… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
“Feel no regret for roses, autumn too has its delights...How could she say that? Didn't she see that for us there could… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
“...it changes the central fact of the human condition: that each of us lives behind one set of eyes, and not another;… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
“Don’t you talk to me about debt. You think you know what debt is? Debt is an abusive husband. Everyone says ‘why… — Alex Livingston Copy Share Image
“I'd caught what cameras call an updraft: just as the viewers got over the first rush of interest, others smelled the excitement… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
“It’s an open secret that the sneakernet is used for a lot more than moving a few dozen terabytes more quickly than… — Alex Livingston Copy Share Image
“I always forget that half of the people who watch us fly are waiting to see us die.” — Maureen F. McHugh Copy Share Image
“Directional acoustics. In a place that sells sounds, they’re a must.” — Alex Livingston Copy Share Image
“Watch batteries gleam in the center of dark flowers. Henna painted with conductive ink, waiting to be turned on.” — Alex Livingston Copy Share Image
“Reed had once warned that brains were untrustworthy – that like any computer, they could be hacked.” — K.C. Alexander Copy Share Image
“The ocean was still and gray as a post-consumer touchscreen when she first spotted the island from the boat’s railing. A shade,… — Alex Livingston Copy Share Image
“most 3D printer artists use the tech to create their visions to perfection. You just take existing things and mess with them.… — Alex Livingston Copy Share Image
“I pulled the Net chip out of my head, cutting her off. The chip was long and white, with many metal legs;… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
“In print news your job is to know things about others, you peer out at the world through an arrow slit. In… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
“...as my fist drove through her ribs. Bone cracked. Shifted. The numbers in my optics hit steel-bending digits and Muerte lost her… — K.C. Alexander Copy Share Image
“...the wires he wore had grown all through him, as the roots of trees replace the flesh of corpses; and the vast… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
“She tries to envision a life without the debt, but can’t string the thoughts together in the right order. The debt is… — Alex Livingston Copy Share Image
“What is a medium like telepresence but the extension--no, the very definition--of ourselves? Are we, who live things at a distance, the… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
“The implants just give you a new set of reproductive-free imperatives, that's all. The rest, thank the gods, is up to you.… — Ian McDonald Copy Share Image
“First the bugs divide your mind into parcels that are almost independent--I always picture paper growing up between the wrinkles of the… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image