No Periods, Period: While the Imperials have by and large abolished menstruation, itâs not due to any of the wacky supernatural, etc., extreme versions (found under Menstrual Menace), or even to the analog of our peculiar cultural ick on the topic. The biotechnologists did it for reasons amounting to
Court of Common Pleas and Small Claims District of Lower Iselyain Selenaria âThis Court has now reviewed the evidence, surveillance, and thought-records placed before it. Does the Advocate for Innocence have any pleas to enter in mitigation?â âI do not, justice.â âDoes the Advocate for Guilt have any pleas to
No OSHA Compliance: Averted, even in the absence of anything resembling an OSHA. Skilled labor is not cheap, and liability payouts are even less cheap. Even averted in the places intended primarily to be occupied by robots and only rarely to ever be entered by actual people. (True, they omit
Want to see and read more about the fusion torch that propels the Drake-class frigate along at a whistlinâ nine Earth gravities? Well, then, go here: http://william-black.deviantart.com/art/NTA-Sunheart-V-Fusion-Torch-526222365
No New Fashions In The Future: Averted over the very long term; over the shorter term, though, I beg to point out that just as with Eternal English, generational turnover is slowed way the heck down in comparison to lifespan â potentially endless â which also slows the rate of fashion change.
EliĂ©ra-SelĂ©ne L3 Relay Station Secondary Relay Cluster, Node 4-1132 Without, the spintronic processors rested quietly in the empty station module, silent but for murmuring light channels and the faint whisper of electrons going about the business of this core segment of the âweave. Within, an overness flickered into being. To
So, the Kalantha-class frontier trader. The iconic ship of the small traders of the Expansion Regions. The commonly found â maybe a hundred thousand built â everysoph, jack-of-all-trades ship that needs only minimal external support and can function in any of a large number of roles. Needs only a tiny crew. Easy
The Nondescript: Itâs not as powerful as a Perception Filter, or even enough to overcome the truly Genre Savvy, but applied memetics has been used from time to time to put certain intelligence operatives in bodies, or construct storage boxes or other devices, and so forth, which are incredibly
From Andreth Prime Allatrian-ith-Ancalyx Vallasélen, to Doctor AAGCCCTAGAGATCCT, Starbridge City Central Medical Services, greetings. Would it be possible to arrange a greater degree of sensory dampening? I should state up front that I am not in any pain, and you need not concern yourself on that point. I also do
So, um⊠we found a couple of minor formatting glitches in the released e-book version (the printed version is fine) of The Core War and Other Stories. Theyâre now fixed in the current download, but if you have purchased a copy before now, please be assured that youâll
No Matter How Much I Beg: Instructions like this given to oneâs muse (or, more reliably, and in the case of a legal Confession of Situational Mental Incompetence, a dedicated guardian AI) are the resort of the infrequently weak-willed (or psychologically superstimulus-addicted) who feel that they need to be
As an additional celebration of the release of my new book, the e-book of my first book, Vignettes of the Star Empire, will be on sale at $0.99 on Amazon.com for the next week (April 9 â April 16), a two-thirds discount. If you havenât picked up a