What’s conquered by the sword is owned only so long as the sword stays sharp. What’s brought together in amity, in recognition of common needs and purpose—of common enemies—has the strength to stand e...
We maintain heading until he's committed, then I want a hardskew-turn to starboard. As hard as you can make it, Chief. I want our starboard broadside on him as he passes below us, and then I want to...
The marvelous intricacy of the rules they’d established, the processes they’d set into motion, the miracles of subtlety and beauty, were enough to make anyone drunk with admiration and awe, and how co...
She was thirteen T-years older than he, but there was something uncannily familiar about his emotions where she was concerned. Somehow, without realizing it was happening, she'd acquired a MacGuiness...
Mother’s casting hungry looks at my exec again, she complained. Not to worry, her father replied. She looks a lot, but she’s never had any reason to roam. You’re as bad as she is!
I am an officer of the Royal Manticoran Navy, Sir— Venizelos felt an undeniable rush of adrenaline and pleasure as he faced the burly captain squarely —and the Royal Manticoran Navy does not 'bluff.
Extremists tend to grow more extreme, not less, as problems get closer to solutions,
Don't worry so much! My skin's thick enough to put up with honestly expressed opinions, even from outsiders, however little I may care for them. And if I started using my security people to break head...
Eyelashes, and the dimples of the devastating smile which was going to get him into all sorts of trouble in another few years danced at the corners of his mouth.
Agreement not to discuss. He never gets tired of comparing one physical artifact to another, Anders went on, even if they all look pretty
WAGs... That's a technical term we engineers use. It means 'Wild-Assed Guess'.
There could be no compromise with those who rejected one’s own beliefs, for compromise and coexistence only opened the door to schism. A people or a faith divided against itself became the sum of its...
The message she'd just ordered Webster to send and Venizelos to relay to Manticore was never sent in drills, not even in the most intense or realistic Fleet maneuvers. Case Zulu had one meaning, and o...
Oh, hell, Thandi muttered, her heart lower than ever. I really blew it, didn't I?Don't be silly, Berry scolded. It's just your first lovers' spat. You accused of him of being an inhuman fiend, and he...
Never keep a lawyer waiting. They have friends in low and infernal places.
Jesus, look at that idiot! Waters' exec muttered, and the citizen captain shook his head in disgust. Having
Cathy smiled back ‘Rules were meant to be broken.’‘Don’t disagree,’ Oversteegen replied immediately. ‘Indeed they are. Providin’, however, that the one breakin’ the rules is willin’ t’ pay the price f...
But his only alternatives were to play for the possibility, however remote, that he could pull one of them off or else to simply surrender everything he'd spent the last forty-six T-months trying to a...
But Haven had become a threat. After almost two T-centuries of deficit spending to shore up an increasingly insolvent welfare state, Haven had decided it had no choice but to turn conquistador to acqu...
There was an almost terrifying lack of intelligence in his eyes.