Rise of Endymion

One Earth year, eleven months, one week, and six hours can be an eternity if you allow it to be so. A day can be so. An hour.

The problem with being passionately in love, I thought, is that it deprives you of too much sleep.

have heard things in the palace.” The

The Void is all probability as standing waves, interacting with that standing wave front which is the human mind

Hyperlife—self-reproducing, information-storing, interacting, metabolizing, evolving—came into existence in the 1960s. It escaped the tide pools of the individual machines in the last decade of that century, moving into the embryonic planetary datasphere that they called the Internet or the web.

One of the first humans to release such creatures into the datasphere ocean was named Tom Ray

Nothing has been removed from the balance of life in the universe. Yet that whole universe—as reproduced in the monk’s mind and heart—has itself died.

Aenea looked at me with such intensity that I could feel her gaze warming my skin as surely as I could feel the powerful sunlight. “How are you, Raul?” “Great,” I said. “I ache a bit. I can feel the healing ribs. The scars itch. And I feel like I overslept by two

To see and feel one’s beloved naked for the first time is one of life’s pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain