She was grinning like the universe had given her a kiss.
You’ve worked with George R. R. Martin a lot in the past. What kind of advice did he have for this project? Yes, I’ve done a number of projects with him in one incarnation or another. In this case, he...
Duty isn’t a buffet where you pick what you want and ignore the rest.
She’d always found a deep comfort in praying. A profound sense of connection to something infinitely larger than herself. Her atheist friends called it awe in the face of an infinite cosmos. She calle...
Political favors are how I express affection, she said.
Point of clarification, Alex said, raising his hand. We have an apocalypse comin’? Was that a thing we knew about? Venus, Avasarala said. Oh. That apocalypse, Alex said, lowering his hand. Right.
Plan? My plan is to die in a ball of superheated plasma.
During his time as a graduate student, he had done data collection for a study of Pinus contorata. Of all the varieties of pine to rise off Earth, lodgepole pine had been the most robust in low-g envi...
Shit, Amos said. And here I was enjoying being so absolutely thumb-up-the-ass useless. You
Nothing ever killed more people than being afraid to look like a sissy.
Now you’re asking me to explain microwaves to a monkey.
So I think to myself, the bartender said, reaching back toward the glassware by the mirror, you’re here for something. The Butcher of Anderson Station in a Belter bar.
Governments exist on confidence. Not on liberty. Not on righteousness. Not on force. They exist because people believe that they do. Because they don’t ask questions.
Nothing like the stupid shit people do for a captain when they're really invested in not seeing how fucked up he is.
They say revenge is empty. This is my first try at it, Holden said. Forgive me if my opinions on it are fairly unformed.
So how does the Epstein drive work? Very well. Efficiently.
No one lived forever. But you fought for every minute you could get.
No rest for the wicked, no peace for the good.
Oh good, Amos replied. Somebody got killed there. That’s how we claim stuff, you know. This planet is officially ours now.
Not because of Laconia, not because of the union, not because of any of the authorities through all of history that have made rules and then dared people to break them. Because we’re human, and humans...
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