The routine operation quickly turns not-routine, of course, and the starship carrying Cypher and Kitai crash lands on the long-abandoned Earth, killing everyone else on board and breaking both of Cypher's legs.
Small groups might generate very complex, perhaps self-referential or internally consistent, styles that become more standardized when larger numbers of people adopt them.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
To benefit from the network, people need a cheap cell phone and data plan, which disqualifies many of the poorest.
He praised the work of veterans' groups -- the Pentagon reported a record number of suicides in 2012 -- and counseled returning veterans: "Just like you take care of yourself and each other on the battlefield you've got to do the same thing off the battlefield.
There were a variety of ways to win the game. James had played it long enough to know most of them and he could see what his opponent was trying to do. There was a simple counterattack that James could use and the game should be his. He began deploying it with the confidence of a veteran player who had been in this situation a thousand times in the past. So, it was with great surprise when his opponent used a move he had never before seen or anticipated to easily defeat him in the game.
