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A world is what its people make it, and your people must be able to make anything of your world that you would want.
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“That would be wonderful, Von!” Kankad exclaimed. “I want to see your world, before I die. It must be a wonderful place.
A world is what its people make it, and your people must be able to make anything of your world that you would want.
”
Push the white pills out, girls, he thought. Don’t push them anywhere; put them back in the bottle.
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The titanium prefab-huts, set up to house the laborers and intended to be taken north with them for their stay on the polar desert, were simply wiped away. Among the wreckage, resistance was being blown out like the lights of a candelabrum.
Push the white pills out, girls, he thought. Don’t push them anywhere; put them back in the bottle.
This year, there wouldn’t be any mining done at the North Pole; next year, the stockholders’ll be bitching about their dividend-checks. And a lot of new machine operators are going to have to be trained for next year’s mining.
Generals are not expendable, sir; neither are they issued for use as clay pigeons.
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“I am not afraid to risk my vehicle, or myself, sir,” the lieutenant replied, with the extreme formality of a very junior officer chewing out a very senior one. “I am, however, afraid to risk my passenger.
Generals are not expendable, sir; neither are they issued for use as clay pigeons.
”
Let’s not kid ourselves; we’re just kicking and biting at the guards on the way up the gallows-steps.
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“If I pull this one out of the fire, I won’t be a general; I’ll be a magician,” he said. “Pickering’ll be a magician, I mean; he’s the boy who’ll save our bacon, if it’s saveable.” He looked somberly across the flame-reflecting water. “
Let’s not kid ourselves; we’re just kicking and biting at the guards on the way up the gallows-steps.
”
We are now running a sort of gaseous-diffusion process, to separate the nuclear physics from the pornography.
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She told him it was all in a book she’d just read, and showed him. We descended in force on the bookshop and grabbed every copy in stock.
We are now running a sort of gaseous-diffusion process, to separate the nuclear physics from the pornography.
I must say, Hildegarde has her biological data very well in hand, too.”
I made the damned thing, and I ought to be along when it’s dropped, on the principle that a restaurant-proprietor ought to be seen eating his own food once in a while.
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“Well I’m coming along, too, general,” Kent Pickering spoke up. “
I made the damned thing, and I ought to be along when it’s dropped, on the principle that a restaurant-proprietor ought to be seen eating his own food once in a while.
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- III: Four-and-Twenty Geek Heads
- V: You Can Depend on It It’s Wrong
- VI: The Bad News Came After the Coffee
- VIII: Authority of Governor-General von Schlichten
- IX: Don’t Push Them Anywhere Put Them Back in the Bottle
- X: The Geek Luftwaffe and the Kragan Airlift
- XII: The Shadow of Niflheim
- XIII: A Bag of Tricks We Don’t Have
- XIV: The Reviewers Panned Hell Out of It
- XV: A Place in My Heart for Hildegarde
III: Four-and-Twenty Geek Heads
Our Kragans could go through that army of Jaikark’s like fast neutrons through toilet-paper.
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“Well, what’s wrong with that, for an idea?” von Schlichten demanded. “Don’t you think we could?
Our Kragans could go through that army of Jaikark’s like fast neutrons through toilet-paper.
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V: You Can Depend on It It’s Wrong
A world is what its people make it, and your people must be able to make anything of your world that you would want.
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“That would be wonderful, Von!” Kankad exclaimed. “I want to see your world, before I die. It must be a wonderful place.
A world is what its people make it, and your people must be able to make anything of your world that you would want.
”
VI: The Bad News Came After the Coffee
They just stand and look at you like a farmer looking at a turkey the week before Christmas, and that I don’t like!
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“They’re too confounded meek. Nowadays, nobody yells ‘Znidd suddabit!’ at you. Nobody sticks all four thumbs in his mouth and waves his fingers. Nobody commits nuisance on the sidewalk in front of you.
They just stand and look at you like a farmer looking at a turkey the week before Christmas, and that I don’t like!
”
VIII: Authority of Governor-General von Schlichten
Von Schlichten unbuttoned his holster and took out his authority, letting Keaveney look into the muzzle of it.
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“No, it doesn’t. You have no authority to assume a civil position of any sort, let alone the very highest position. …”
Von Schlichten unbuttoned his holster and took out his authority, letting Keaveney look into the muzzle of it.
“Here it is,” he said. “If you’re wise, don’t make me appeal to it.”
IX: Don’t Push Them Anywhere Put Them Back in the Bottle
Push the white pills out, girls, he thought. Don’t push them anywhere; put them back in the bottle.
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The titanium prefab-huts, set up to house the laborers and intended to be taken north with them for their stay on the polar desert, were simply wiped away. Among the wreckage, resistance was being blown out like the lights of a candelabrum.
Push the white pills out, girls, he thought. Don’t push them anywhere; put them back in the bottle.
This year, there wouldn’t be any mining done at the North Pole; next year, the stockholders’ll be bitching about their dividend-checks. And a lot of new machine operators are going to have to be trained for next year’s mining.
For the timidity and stupidity of our enemies, Allah make us truly thankful, amen.
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“He’s hoping our native troops and the mine laborers will be able to wipe us out, themselves,” von Schlichten said. “
For the timidity and stupidity of our enemies, Allah make us truly thankful, amen.
It’s something no commander should depend on, but be glad when it happens.
Generals are not expendable, sir; neither are they issued for use as clay pigeons.
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“I am not afraid to risk my vehicle, or myself, sir,” the lieutenant replied, with the extreme formality of a very junior officer chewing out a very senior one. “I am, however, afraid to risk my passenger.
Generals are not expendable, sir; neither are they issued for use as clay pigeons.
”
X: The Geek Luftwaffe and the Kragan Airlift
Ruins are no good to anybody, and I am not a Jeel, to eat corpses.
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Jonkvank reacted as he was intended to. “Oh, no, general, don’t do all that!” he exclaimed. “You promised me that I should have Skilk, on the word of a Terran. Are you going to give me a city of ruins and corpses?
Ruins are no good to anybody, and I am not a Jeel, to eat corpses.
”
XII: The Shadow of Niflheim
Soap and towels, for General Pontius von Pilate!
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“
Soap and towels, for General Pontius von Pilate!
” Paula Quinton called out.
XIII: A Bag of Tricks We Don’t Have
“If I pull this one out of the fire, I won’t be a general; I’ll be a magician,” he said.
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“Wednesday night, I thought we were all cooked,” Paula told him. “Cleaning up the north in two days seemed like an impossibility, too. Maybe you’ll do it again.”
“If I pull this one out of the fire, I won’t be a general; I’ll be a magician,” he said.
“Pickering’ll be a magician, I mean; he’s the boy who’ll save our bacon, if it’s saveable.” He looked somberly across the flame-reflecting water. “Let’s not kid ourselves; we’re just kicking and biting at the guards on the way up the gallows-steps.”
Let’s not kid ourselves; we’re just kicking and biting at the guards on the way up the gallows-steps.
Show the passage
“If I pull this one out of the fire, I won’t be a general; I’ll be a magician,” he said. “Pickering’ll be a magician, I mean; he’s the boy who’ll save our bacon, if it’s saveable.” He looked somberly across the flame-reflecting water. “
Let’s not kid ourselves; we’re just kicking and biting at the guards on the way up the gallows-steps.
”
XIV: The Reviewers Panned Hell Out of It
We will erect, on the ruins of Keegark, a hundred-foot statue of Señorita Hildegarde Hernandez.
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Von Schlichten handed the book back to Pickering, and sighed deeply. “And I thought everybody here had gone off his rocker,” he said. “
We will erect, on the ruins of Keegark, a hundred-foot statue of Señorita Hildegarde Hernandez.
… How did you get onto this?”
We are now running a sort of gaseous-diffusion process, to separate the nuclear physics from the pornography.
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She told him it was all in a book she’d just read, and showed him. We descended in force on the bookshop and grabbed every copy in stock.
We are now running a sort of gaseous-diffusion process, to separate the nuclear physics from the pornography.
I must say, Hildegarde has her biological data very well in hand, too.”
XV: A Place in My Heart for Hildegarde
I made the damned thing, and I ought to be along when it’s dropped, on the principle that a restaurant-proprietor ought to be seen eating his own food once in a while.
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“Well I’m coming along, too, general,” Kent Pickering spoke up. “
I made the damned thing, and I ought to be along when it’s dropped, on the principle that a restaurant-proprietor ought to be seen eating his own food once in a while.
”
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