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  1. Charles Stross _ Singularity Sky

    As long as you expect someone or something else to take responsibility for you, you're a child.
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  2. Charles Stross _ Singularity Sky

    His remit will be to monitor the use of reality-modification weapons by both sides in the conflict and to assure the civilized worlds that the New Republic does not engage in gratuitous use of time travel as a weapon of mass destruction.
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  3. Charles Stross _ Singularity Sky

    Oh yes, and compulsory ferret-legging down the pub on Tuesday evenings, for the tourist trade tha' knows." "Ferret-legging?" Rachel looked at him incredulously. "Yup. You tie your kilt up around your knees with duct tape-as you probably know, no Yorkshireman would be seen dead wearing anything under his sporran-and take a ferret by the scruff of his neck. A ferret, that's like, uh, a bit like a mink. Only less friendly. It's a young man's initiation rite; you stick the ferret where the sun doesn't shine and dance the furry dance to the tune of a balalaika. Last man standing and all that, kind of like the ancient Boer aardvark-kissing competition." Martin shuddered dramatically. "I hate ferrets. The bloody things bite like a cask-strength single malt without the nice after-effects.
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  4. Charles Stross _ Singularity Sky

    demonstrating the importance of being Ernst as the marketing department put it.
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  5. Charles Stross _ Singularity Sky

    Thou shalt not violate causality within my historic light cone. Or else.
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  6. Charles Stross _ Singularity Sky

    Accelerating to speeds faster than light was, of course, impossible. General relativity had made that clear enough back in the twentieth century. However, since then a number of ways of circumventing the speed limit had turned up; by now, there were at least six different known methods of moving mass or information from A to B without going through c.
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  7. Charles Stross _ Singularity Sky

    I am the Eschaton. I am not your God.I am descended from you, and exist in your future.Thou shalt not violate causality within my historic light cone. Or else.
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