Only in summer-phase is it carnivorous. If there was an award for understatement, I thought, the Tyr would trounce all competition.
C.S. Friedman
All about us were people. Perhaps a hundred. Men. Experience had taught me that humans were cruelest when segregated by sex, and the cold feeling in the pit of my stomach became led. What had I let myself in for?
danger fear dark
The Tyr had tried. It had really tried. It must have gone over every element of human psychology, tried desperately to understand the nature of human aesthetic sense and then failed, miserably, in every regard.
irony scifi
I sold my soul for knowledge of the future, only to have that very pact render me forever ignorant (Gerald Tarrant).
soul knowledge
Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced by his first contact with a culture that does.
sci-fi political-science
scifi
My identity is without root.
We share need, not-human. Yours is straightforward. Mine is less so, but you will serve it. Come.
It is in the nature of man that he is antagonistic toward the others of his sex. Each man sees in another a potential competitor for the limited rewards of male success, and the hostility which arises between them is a part of the natural balance of human life. It is possible, as in the case of father and son, that a closeness will arise between two men which threatens the functional hostility of each. It is the duty of society to provide an artificial means of encouraging the proper degree of antagonism.
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