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Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If ...more

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That's not what I'm asking. I'm asking, what's your vice and what brand of trouble does it lead to?

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Jack had wondered how geometers could be so inventive as to produce so many types and families of curves. Later he had come to perceive that of curves...more

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Persons of quality had devoted yester evening and much of the night to liquidating their holdings in the South Sea Company and gathering in clubs and ...more

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Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.

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It is a second-generation Seattle-scene record label; all of its artists are young people who came to Seattle after they graduated college in search o...more

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Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense tha...more

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He walked straight out of college into the waiting arms of the Navy. They gave him an intelligence test. The first question on the math part had to do...more

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The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and sometimes carves new ones wit...more

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A few dud universes can really clutter up your basement.

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Seven billion who need to be kept happy, and docile, until the end. How do you do that? What's the best way to calm down a scared kid, get them to go ...more

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The Deliverator's car has enough potential energy packed into its batteries to fire a pound of bacon into the Asteroid Belt. Unlike a bimbo box or a B...more