Even if I hadn't borked my own governor module, the emergency feed took priority, and it was chaotic, too, with the automated HubSystem wanting data and trying to send me data I didn't need yet and Mensah sending me telemetry from the hopper.

Now even [Fred] Silverman was grim. It looks chintzy, he said, even with all the money we're spending.

Penetrating sealant, a protective formula applied to the stone, soaks into the material, and topdressings form a protective skin on top.

... and there are the hedonists who find their lives' meaning in varied and endless sexual encounters or in gourmet foods and wines and in maximizing the sensual pleasure of life and the materialists, who live to own great homes and cars and multi-screen TVs, and the technologists, who devote their lives to computers and whizbangery, and the sports lovers, who spend much time memorizing baseball and football stats and watching sports on TV ...