Efficiency improvers

Usage examples of shortcuts.

This seemed a frightfully bad time to try evading the speed of light with shortcuts that had been routine for aeons.

For some reason, members of that order liked taking shortcuts through E Space on their way from one Jupiter-type world to another, even though A and B levels were more efficient, and transfer points much faster.

Unlike Levels A, B, and C, it offered few shortcuts around the immense vacuum deserts of normal space.

That coalescence left defects behindboundaries and fractures-where physical laws bent and shortcuts were possible.

Even back home, with just pencil and paper as her only tools, she had learned all sorts of clever shortcuts to describe the countless ways that space might fold, flex, or tear-analytical methods that lay outside the normal Galactic tradition.

With so many cheap shortcuts available from the Great Library, who needed such a tool kit of outlandishly extravagant tricks?

But it was the right concept, and Jaime as much as Carey understood her occasional need for shortcuts and had the ability to follow them.

It had not suited him, for though he'd grown tougher, handling Grunt's saddle and pack equipment with ease, walking the uncertain footing with practiced resignation, judging trails and shortcuts and skirting small blots of destruction with efficient skill, he'd also lost weight, going from lean to thin in a way that showed even under his layers of clothing.

Not many of those on the shortcuts she took to reach the peacekeepers.

I suspect that along the way he may have directed that shortcuts be taken, shortcuts that involve the underworld.

Without slowing much at all, Ishaq swung his two big draft horses off the main road and took shortcuts through alleyways behind tightly packed rows of buildings where entire families lived in a single room.

Some of the private corridors that served as shortcuts for officials were paneled in highly polished woods illuminated by silver reflector lamps that added warm light.

He was sticking to the main roads, instead of the alleys and shortcuts and fast stretches unpoliced by traffic lights that Rebus would have used.

Microsoft's implementation of shortcuts becomes a serious concern if a webpage can tell Internet Explorer to refresh to an executable.