"Though Richard’s Wikipedia entry had been quiet lately, in the past it had been turbulent with edit wars between myst…"

"The young woman had turned toward him and thrust her pink gloves up in the air in a gesture that, from a man, meant “…"

"Black/Arab with an unmistakable dash of Italian. No one would mistake her for a model, but she’d found a look. Richar…"

"He was a quick study. An autodidact. Anything that was technical, that was logical, that ran according to rules, Pete…"

"Richard’s ex-girlfriends were long gone, but their voices followed him all the time and spoke to him, like Muses or F…"

"The girl in the passenger seat said she had never before been in “a car like this,” meaning, apparently, a sedan. Ric…"

"The Walmart was like a starship that had landed in the soybean fields. … They went inside. The young ones shuffled to…"

"The opening screen of T’Rain was a frank rip-off of what you saw when you booted up Google Earth. Richard felt no gui…"

"And so it was that Richard had conceived Corporation 9592’s Writers in Residence Program. Years later, he was astound…"

"He kept flinching. The low sun shone in the face of a two-hundred-foot-tall wind turbine in the field across the cric…"