Cap, Amos said with a grin. Anything that kills me has already killed everyone else. I was born to be the last man standing. You can count on it. The
After a few decades, you come to a place where you realize that there's really no difference between trying and not trying... If someone is ready to accept Christ, it doesn't take much effort on my pa...
The bank of lockers was down, the airlock door up. Human brains needed an answer, even if they had to make up something they knew was bullshit.
Ja minä nousivat kuolleista ja halventaa kohtalo pakottaa minut ja siskoni…
And the Mark Watney, out of Mars.
Yeah, Chris said. I lose a couple limbs getting drunk and falling into harvesting combine, I'm an idiot. I lose the same limbs because I happened to be standing next to the right door when the ship wa...
When it comes to scrapes, I'm what you might call a talented amateur. But I've gotten a good look at that women in and out of that fancy mechanical shell she wears. She's a pro. We're not playing the...
There aren’t any new starts, Bobbie said. All the new ones pack the old ones along with them. If we ever really started fresh, it’d mean not having a history anymore. I don’t know how to do that.
That man’s asshole must be tight enough right now to bend space.
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...
Stars are better off without us, he said, but too softly for anyone but Julie to hear.
She was going to see a world in the aftermath of utter disaster, but she would still see it. And the state of nature was always recovering from the last disaster. Stop,
Semper fi, Gunny. Oohrah, Bobbie replied with a grin. On
Ren, her official second, was a Belter and, like all Belters, passionate about environmental control systems the way normal people were with sex or religion.
Really? Ip said, leaning forward. Her knee pressed against Alex’s in a way that was absolutely innocent. Unless it wasn’t, in which case it absolutely wasn’t. Never
Probably the most common last words that day were going to be Huh, that’s weird. That or Oh shit.
No matter how egalitarian a group might start out, someone always wound up taking a leadership role.
No fame and glory for you, Cortez. Montezuma wasn’t impressed by your fire stick this time. Everything
Miller was staring at him like an entomologist trying to figure out exactly where the pin went.
Miller caught the red-and-green border that meant either a priority message or an early Christmas card.