We didn’t think anything of it at the time, but we saw several of the bodies of the crew, space pirates all, with what looked like necklaces of garlic around their necks. There was salt strewn on the floor in places, and it made a crunchy sound as we walked over it. Some had died clinging to crude wooden and metal crosses. Religious fanatics, I thought then – after all, isn’t it usually the worst sort of people who turn to religion when they suddenly see their end approaching and they fear some kind of reckoning coming their way?


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When religion ceases to be speculative and becomes factual and "true", it will become science. Scien...
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Marsh’k cut the circuit on the rest of the helmsman’s whining and rose to his feet, stretching t...
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The Doktor took a fly swatter and hit it hard. ‘Bang!’ it went. But it didn’t go splat! The ro...
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But some boys like boys more -
And some girls make other girls hearts soar!
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Denying the facts is what enables people to hate and to persecute marginalized and threatened minori...
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The last week hadn’t been any better, come to think of it. On Monday they arrived at Gorda, just t...
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Aside from all that, she was carrying about a million tons of titanium ore to the heavy industries o...
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Although a little noisy at first, in a bizarre twist of fate, electronic music became popular in Fra...
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• Scientific and medical studies, research or evidence is either distorted and misrepresented, or ...
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It is interesting how - depending on the person in power - our LGBT issues are either right at the t...
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I can understand backward patriarchal reasoning coming from a male, but from a woman - and of all pe...
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The Exo went pale when he realized what we were dealing with. Well, what he thought we were dealing ...
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Cautiously, he moved further out, checking the roofs, doors, windows. Nothing. He walked out further...
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Something clicked inside Ortez mind, like the bolt of a door latch being released. Man’s first enc...
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A tractor beam from the Imperial ship locked onto the shuttle and in seconds it became apparent they...
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Imagine, if you will:
Meradinis!
The stuff myths are made of! The Turtle Island of the sta...
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In the Black Palace, in the capital city below, the man know as the Patron – Martel the Mighty, ru...
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The Hammer was a hard man, a smart man too, and he took pride in always having a plan ‘b’. For t...
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Advanced weaponry, victories in battle and space travel do not an advanced species or civilization m...
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He looked at the viewscreen and couldn’t believe it. If the other ship were any closer, then it wo...
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Rise of Science Denialism

The problem is, in a world where some people (even in the USA, ...
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Oval Window, 1953 - 1957
In 1953 came the first major changes in Beetle styling. Rear view was ...
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Those who say 'it's just an animal' are really saying more about themselves than they realize.
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Just saying "I love you" can mean the difference between nothing and everything. Some people say it ...
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At forty two years, Sona Kilroy stood tall and strapping, a powerful figure. Rising to the rank of A...
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Make sure you date someone who always makes you want to dance, with or without music.
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It's amazing, the increase in grammatical errors in proportion to the level of hatred in the content...
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Is there any good left in the world? and if there is, can you still find it in the places that matte...
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They set about making people so unhappy and isolated and when they crawl into a hole and pull it in ...
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Knowing who you are is more valuable than having ten 'friends' who don't even know who they are, but...
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Regardless of what language it is said in, "I love you" stays beautiful, and two hearts beating toge...
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If you stick your head in the sand like an ostrich, pretending you don't exist - why get upset when ...
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Beauty... Is what you are after a lifetime of struggle in the face of hostility, surviving, and stan...
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The coining of their new catch-phrase 'homophiliac' displayed in contrast to 'homophobic' was rather...
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They tell us variety is the spice of life - and yet diversity terrifies them.
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What we see far too little of today is people who identify as Christians, standing up to the hate-mo...
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What we see far too little of today is people who identify as Christians, standing up to the hate-mo...
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Light-years away, another starship was also experiencing problems, though perhaps not as severe. The...
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Going to the extreme of inviting and welcoming people into your church in order to hear you condemn ...
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I note the lengths to which Christianist groups are prepared to go to, to influence government and t...
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Lt. Denice Barnum at the helm gave a sigh, then replaced her nail file on the control panel, beside ...
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While many people define being a man or a woman as being dependent on reproductive capacity, it is w...
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Now I don’t know how many people like to drive a Beetle at that kind of speed (on purpose) but I k...
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My ship – the Demeter, was a star-liner operated by the Red Star Line. I say ‘was’ because of ...
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Some kids are black, or brown - some kids are red, and others white.
Kids come in all different...
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Slavery of the heart, oh Love - a prisoner of will thou art - proof that love, while blissful, can o...
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Mister Jordan?” Came the genteel, restrained voice of a more senior gentleman in the front of the ...
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Disagreeing with someone does not mean that they have to be enemies or opponents.
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Peace with non-fundamentalists terrifies the fundamentalist because to them, being Christian doesn't...
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It is ironic that the only thing separating 'friend' from 'fiend' - is a single letter.
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Some children are threatened with loss of privileges such as money, cell phones, cars or even evicti...
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