Cacaphony ( Read more... )

“So this… android… You think it killed one of your employees and has taken their place ( Read more... )

"Also, hon, you've been added to the FTL-Executives mailing list, whatever that means."
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"What did you tell those government suits?"
"I told them that Mormons, Aztecs, and aliens are all the same thing."
"But they basically are all the same thing ( Read more... )

Yes, Inquisitor General, the new creation is ready to show to His Eminence, but we thought you might like to see it first ( Read more... )

You know, a couple hundred years ago they thought Robots would eventually do all the work that Humans used to and it would usher in a new, golden age of leisure and human fulfillment. Imagine! Why have thousands toiling in factories when machines can do it? Why have thousands-- tens of thousands, millions-- more building roads, or carrying mail, or ( Read more... )

Father says we did not do so well in the lottery. We are almost eight hundred twenty-five million down in line. I can't count that high, so it must be a long way to the Emperor. There are many people behind us, but there are many more ahead of us. Why does the Emperor want to meet everyone in the Empire anyway? Father says there are over a billion ( Read more... )

It was just a slightly-streaked speck of light ( Read more... )

Let me tell you about a funny thing that just happened to me at work. I have to be brief, though ( Read more... )