The part of the universe they were in was crumbling -- slowly, but accelerating -- under them, and there was a periodically discorporeal version of the Big Bad Wolf trying to eat them, or at least do considerable harm to them ( Read more... )

Stepping through an Aperture Science portal was like stepping through an open door, like simply stepping forward as you generally would ( Read more... )

Sleeping for a week was unfortunately out of the equation, but he didn't entirely need to, anyway, running now on a clean arc reactor. The stopgap had alleviated symptoms, certainly, but the underlying cause had still been there, and he hadn't realized how much it had been quietly running him down. Especially given how close to the wire that had ( Read more... )

Around the station, people fought for their lives. Shots rang out, punctuated by the occasional fall of a body, accompanied by the distressed moan of a dead body forced back into life and then torn apart by lead. The synthetic chirp of "I dooOOn't haate yoouuu," fading under it. Lasers flared across hallways, grids threatening to cut apart anyone ( Read more... )

Aperture Science had a funny way of running their business, but Tony couldn't fault their technology. He'd made a few improvements to the section of the Enrichment Station he'd claimed as his own, wiring up a gesture based interface similar to the one in his workshop back home, and he didn't entirely agree with the decorating, but he wasn't sitting ( Read more... )

I'd have this girlfriend who knew my true identity. She'd be a wreck. She'd always be worrying I was going to die, yet so proud of the man I've become. She'd be wildly conflicted, which would only make her more crazy about me...That wasn't working out so well. The wreck part, that was accurate, although actually it didn't seem to apply solely to ( Read more... )

His father, in his video and by extension his notes, had stated his desire for Tony to finish his work, to take the work that had already been done and bring it to another level. He didn't have a problem with this concept; all innovation built on that which already existed. Any scientist not standing on the shoulders of his predecessors was ( Read more... )

That his house and, by extension, his workshop no longer looked like venues for an impromptu musical number was a step in the right direction. There hadn't been any right angles, and while it had been marvellous inspiration for thinking about spacetime and the curvature thereof, and ways in which that applied to the pocket universe the island was ( Read more... )

If chemistry had been entirely like cooking, it would have been easy, really. Take one part lithium, two parts oxygen, mix, enjoy ( Read more... )