Suddenly a pair of searchlights lanced out from the frigate. They swept across the dark expanse - bright knives slicing the night into pieces.

When the term "machine gun" enters common parlance, the word "machine" becomes much more sinister.

Even mocking people helped their face stats. In the reputation economy, the only real way to hurt anyone was to ignore them completely. And it was pretty hard to ignore someone who made your blood boil.

You'd think that in a fight, NOT MOVING would be a bad habit!

Making ourselves feel ugly is not fun." "We are ugly.

She looked at David closely, and the feeling was still there. She could see that his forehead was too high, that a small scar cut a white stroke through his eyebrow. And his smile was pretty crooked, really. But it was as if something had changed inside Tally's head, something that had turned his face pretty to her.

History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep.