Cells became molecules—countless and complex and varied. The demarcation of one thing and another failed. There was only a community of molecules, shifting in a vast dance. And then the atoms that mad...
The usual state of nature is recovering from the last disaster,
If life transcends deathThen I will seek for you thereIf not, then there too
She preferred the times when she could pretend that she was in a gravity well to the little reminders that she was the puppet of acceleration and inertia.
My hallucinations are of the alien mind control variety.
Chapter Fourteen: Teresa So not unnatural at all, Holden said, tipping a little more wine from the bottle into the doctor’s glass.Meaningless term, Cortázar said. Humans arose inside nature. We’re nat...
The velocities and forces involved in anything at orbital altitudes were enough to kill a human with just the rounding error. At their speeds, the friction from air too thin to breathe would set them...
Apocalyptic explosions, dead reactors, terrorists, mass murder, death-slugs, and now a blindness plague. This is a terrible planet. We should not have come here.
I still feel haunted,' she said. 'I thought it would go away. I thought if I faced it, it would all go away.''It doesn't go away. Ever. But you get better at it.''At what?''At being haunted,' Avasaral...
Once is never. Twice is always.
Holden was starting to feel like they were all monkeys playing with a microwave. Push a button, a light comes on inside, so it’s a light. Push a different button and stick your hand inside, it burns y...
The mechanic had laid out two suits of their Martian-made light combat armour, a number of rifles and shotguns, and stacks of ammunition and explosives.What, Holden said, is all this?You said to gear...
And a familiar voice was coming from the terminal, Going to be monitoring anything we fucking say. If you wanted to discuss menstruation at great length and detail, this is probably our best chance. H...
You know, Naomi said, if you’re looking at hundreds of people burning to death as a problem solving itself, that may be more evidence that you’re on wrong side.
Or was that fatalism another good move in design space? Did the universe evolve eyes and wings and sense organs and bitter amusement at the prospect of death all the same way?
Intellectually, he knew that he was falling sunward, heading in from the Jovian system toward the Belt. In a week, the sun would be close to twice the size it was now, and it would still be insignific...
It’s herding kittens. If kittens had a lot of guns and an overdose of neo-Libertarian property theory.
The ocean, just outside, seeped into everything. An olfactory reminder to everyone passing through the Ellis Island of the space age that Earth was absolutely unique to the human race. The birthplace...
Given their current circumstances, things would have to be very bad indeed for Tilly to think the situation had gotten worse. Sure, they were all trapped in orbit around an alien space station that pe...
Tell me everything it explains, he said when he could remember how to speak. Being forced to move moist flaps of meat in order to form the words felt sensual and obscene.
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