Unscrupulous members offered special discounts, illegal rebates, and unauthorized underquotations to outflank their conference partners, and blamed their agents or 'invented' competition to justify these tactics.

Contrary to Storra's hope, however, the conversation between Flinx and his new visitor was going very well indeed. ¶Experienced in the ways of political intrigue, if not interspecies interlocution, Treappyn had settled himself into a comfortable squat.

Jointed track will be replaced, with standard ballast instead of shingle beneath, to stabilise the rails and improve the notoriously dreadful ride quality.

Its novellalike plot follows a trip to the country taken by a celebrated middle-aged playwright […].