I'm good at it, I get paid fairly well for it, and some day I'm going to be one of the people in charge of the whole magilla.

About 541 he removed to Constantinopolis, where he received every mark of imperial favour both from Justinianus and Justinus the Second.

Twenty meters in diameter to match the bore of the huge Japanese ore drilling machines, the floor had been leveled by an equally bodacious milling robot, and the shiny metallic walls seemed to stretch on to infinity.

This put a crimp in my style, so I was determined we were going to find our own place faster than the timetable we'd set ourselves.