I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!
On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS
Yes," Vorkosigan agreed, "I could take over the universe with this army if I could ever get all their weapons pointed in the same direction.
There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.
I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.
I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.