Even light, which travels so fast it takes most races thousands of years to realize that it travels at all, takes time to journey between the stars.

The problem is, or rather one of the problems, for there are many, a sizeable proportion of which are continually clogging up the civil, commercial, and criminal courts in all areas of the Galaxy, and especially, where possible, the more corrupt ones, this. The previous sentence makes sense. That is not the problem. This is: Change. Read it through again and you'll get it.

Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?

And the most interesting natural structure? A giant, two-thousand-mile-long fish in orbit around Jupiter, according to a reliable report in the Weekly World News. The photograph was very convincing, and I'm only surprised that more-reputable journals like New Scientist, or even just The Sun, haven't followed up with more details. We should be told.

If there was one thing life had taught her it was that there are times when you do not go back for your bag and times when you do. It had yet to teach her to distinguish between the two types of occasion.

Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.

I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.