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6 viewsThe things worked, Korolev supposed, because for the last decade he'd watched them multiply."And they say that people live in those things?" Systems Officer Stoiko had joined Grishkin at the viewport.Korolev remembered the pathetic flurry of strange American energy schemes in the wake of the Treaty of Vienna.With the Soviet Union firmly in control of the world's oil flow, the Americans had seemed willing to try anything.
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6 viewsWhere do you go when the world's wealthiest criminal order is feeling for you with calm, distant fingers? Where do you hide from the Yakuza, so powerful that it owns comsats and at least three shuttles? The Yakuza is a true multinational, like ITT and Ono-Sendai.Fifty years before I was born the Yakuza had already absorbed the Triads, the Mafia, the Union Corse.Molly had an answer: You hide in the Pit, in the lowest circle, where any outside influence generates swift, cocentric ripples of raw menace.You hide in Nighttown.
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0 views.But it was! "Want you both in back," Molly said, opening the door on the driver's side."It's you," Mona managed, to the most famous face in the world."Yes," Angie said, her eyes on Mona's face, "it .
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2 viewsWore a long black coat, leather so thin it moved like silk."Hello, missy," he said, when he stood in front of her, reached out to raise her chin so she was looking straight into gold-flecked agate eyes like nobody in the world ever had.Long fingers so light against her chin."Missy," he said, "how old are you?" "Sixteen .
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0 viewsThere 's no there ,there.They taught that to children, explaining cyberspace.She remembered a smiling tutor's lecture in the arcology's executive cr?che, images shifting on a screen: pilots in enormous helmets and clumsy- looking gloves, the neuroelectronically primitive "virtual world" technology linking them more effectively with their planes, pairs of miniature video terminals pumping them a computer-generated flood of combat data, the vibrotactile feedback gloves providing a touch-world of studs and triggers..
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0 viewsThis thing - - the macroform, the anomaly -- was of little interest, though Tick and Colin both regarded it as extraordinary."Look at it," Tick said."Could have a bloody world, in there ..
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1 viewsNow Gentry went to the big display unit, the projection table."There are worlds within worlds," he said."Macrocosm, microcosm.We carried an entire universe across a bridge tonight, and that which is above is like that below.
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2 viewsThe decor of the bar induced a profound sense of cultural dislocation: it managed to simultaneously reflect traditional Japanese design and look as though it had been drawn up by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.She was very strange, Sally Shears, stranger than all of gaijin London.Now she told Kumiko stories, stories about people who lived in a Japan Kumiko had never known, stories that defined her father's role in the world.The oyabun , she called Kumiko's father.
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0 viewsShe wasn't thinking; her hands seemed to know what to do, friendly animals that wouldn't hurt her.One of them touched PLAY and she slid into the Angie-world, pure as any drug, slow saxophone and limo glide through some European city, how the streets revolved around her, around the driverless car, broad avenues, dawn- clean and almost empty, with the touch of fur against her shoulders, and rolling on, down a straight road through flat fields, edged with perfect, identical trees.And turning, tires over raked gravel, up a winding drive through parkland where the dew was silver, here an iron deer, there a wet white marble torso ..
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1 views"Cost the world." Kumiko examined the skeletal matte-black tiara.The Maas-Neotek logo was molded between the temple pieces.She put it on, cold against her skin.He put his own set on, hunched down in the opposite chair.
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0 viewsMadness had no place in her father's world, though suicide did.Her mother's madness was European, an imported snare of sorrow and delusion...
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Dolphin, Sea World, San Antonio1 viewsDolphin, Sea World, San Antonio
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