No computers?” Zhora asked in amazement, touring the house in search of where to establish himself. “My games I play live,” said Andrey Pavlovich.

News you can’t read calmly, don’t read at all!

To every time, its own normality.

Longevity depended on peace. Peace was the source of self-assurance, and self-assurance allowed one to cleanse one’s life of needless upsets, twists and turns. Self-assurance allowed one to take decisions for the prolonging of one’s life. Self-assurance led to the future.

All’s well! You’re sold into slavery! We can go, they’re expecting you.” “How do you mean, slavery?” “It’s the way they put it here. Chechen men don’t work, slaves work for them. If I’d offered them you without charge, they wouldn’t have trusted me. They’d have taken you for Fed Security.

Even reading the news feed on the Internet, you can sense which information is credible among all the thousands of propagandist lies.

But I can do it,” she said, sitting down on the carpet again. “It’s just that I’m heavier after breakfast.

No matter,” said the old man hoarsely. “Means you’re still alive if it hurts.

In one of my novels I described a secret factory, hidden away in the Ural Mountains, which produced artificial meteorites. The dream of the Soviet military’s high command: bombarding the United States with artificial meteorites, while making people believe they were real ones.

Yesterday, Parliament announced an open forum day. Everyone was given the chance to speak. Or, in other words, no one listened.