Miller caught the red-and-green border that meant either a priority message or an early Christmas card.
Probably the most common last words that day were going to be Huh, that’s weird. That or Oh shit.
I don’t know, he said. But I’ve known Timmy since forever, yeah? He doesn’t do anything unless there’s a reason. Well, Burton replied, pulling the word out to two syllables. If it’s since forever, I g...
I never changed sides, Fred said. The sides keep changing around me. I was always the one who wanted order. Peace. Justice, even.
If humanity were capable of being satisfied, then they'll still be living in trees and eating bugs out of one another's fur. Anna had walked on a moon of Jupiter. She'd look up through a dome-covered...
Stars are better off without us, he said, but too softly for anyone but Julie to hear.
If you hear hoofbeats in the distance, your first guess is that they’re horses, not zebras. And you’re hearing hoofbeats and jumping straight to unicorns.
Baltimore was Earth writ small, crowded and bored. Its citizens were caught between the dismal life of basic and the barriers of class, race, and opportunity, vicious competition and limited resources...
No fame and glory for you, Cortez. Montezuma wasn’t impressed by your fire stick this time. Everything
I’m saying let’s go see if we can find some horses or zebras before we start a unicorn hunt.
She’d stopped looking tired a while ago and had moved on to whatever tired turns into when it became a lifestyle.
Strength by itself is just bullying, capitulation by itself is an invitation to get fucked; only mixed strategies survive. Everything is personal, but they know that too. They can smell pandering like...
Do we have a plan? A couple, Jim said. Either of them good? Oh, no. Not at all. Just different flavors of terrible. The
I try to do the right thing, Holden. But there are times when it’s not obvious what that is. I agree with you, Holden said. Right up to the part where you tell me this is one of those times.
You ask yourself what happens, Miller said. Ask yourself what Naomi’d do. Holden barked out a laugh. Is that how you make your decisions? Miller let his eyes close. Juliette Mao was there, sitting on...
And the Mark Watney, out of Mars.
Miller was staring at him like an entomologist trying to figure out exactly where the pin went.
Things change, Alex said. And they don’t change back, she
Fred launched himself at Dawes, pushing out with numbed legs, and Dawes scuttled back. Fred landed on the deck hard. The world grayed out for a second, and he tasted blood. He struggled forward, tryin...
What kind of half-assed apocalypse are they running down there?
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