When I caught up with him, he was selling darkmatter at a state fair. He'd been explaining to the crowd that the secret of transporting it was pure vaccuum. You couldm't transport darkmatter in a crate or in a bucket, he said, because the bucket would exert no force on it, the same as the crate. Darkmatter and ordinary matter just didn't ( Read more... )

Waiting by the window sill of his tidy fifty-first floor laboratory, Bridheault Rheims entertained the momentary doubt of a sane man expecting an insane thing to occur. Certainly it would put him in closer keeping with a number of his jealous contemporaries, were he too to decide that his genius was not without the customary streak of madness that ( Read more... )

"There are currently one hundred and thirty-eight worlds in the cosmos possessed of orcs ( Read more... )

Night slipped up the sandstone steps of the royal palace and gardens complex in Camerill, unnoticed for the most part, save for the occasional passing comment exchanged between citizen-stewards and keepers-of-the-peace about an early autumn or the casual gathering of the clothes about one's shoulders that often precedes the realization that one has ( Read more... )

It had been about a week since Ral Dingwahl had received orders. The young sorcerer was beginning to think, in the private bits of the mind reserved for those things not yet consciously committed to but already deeply understood, that the war had ended - lost, since the alternative would have resulted in parades and definitely not the eerie ( Read more... )

This just wasn't the week for warfare, Marshall Grekk resolved, looking out from his concealed position on the valley rim above Vanaeron's eastern frontier province. His forces had been stewing in their own juices for going-on eight days awaiting Grekk's official order to reduce the idyllic little farming village below to screaming and cinders, ( Read more... )

"Another appalling Horde custom is the Ceremonial Ass Whuppin' given to ambassadors from other races on first presentation as such ( Read more... )

"1:2 What man knows the name of his master is only half a slave. If he knows too his master's ambitions, then he is no longer slave at all. Then his words may promise, goad and reassure in all appropriate times and by so doing steer his betters to govern in his interest. Such a man takes on the mere appearance of slavery to better have his way ( Read more... )