It had been an exhausting and exhilarating few weeks since Peter made the Free People of Earth public. The most immediate troubles, of course, involved the territories he had eked out within the boundaries of other nations. Peru and Sudan had not declared war, but that was only because they had no one to declare war against: neither country ( Read more... )

Peter had absolutely no inclination whatsoever to go outside and poke at the rock, or anything like it. What he desperately wanted to do was go home and work on his essays with his sister, and maybe forge some more contacts, and try to find a few more avenues for fundraising, and...

And not think at all about the fact that all he'd gotten from his ( Read more... )

"Look, I'm telling you," Peter said, "It won't be long now. Look at what the Russians are doing: they're packed together tighter at the borders than lemmings. The Polemarch is planning something. All of this data traffic going back and forth, he's working up to it. I think the end of the Formic war isn't a question of years anymore. It might not ( Read more... )