I think we need to leave now, Holden said, fear making the words come fast. Like now now. Not later now.
I mean, weird, dead alien technology with effects we don’t understand sweeping whole ships away without leaving a trace or explanation. That’s probably safe to play with, right?
I keep warning you. Doors and corners, kid. That’s where they get you. Humans are too fucking stupid to listen.
I have killed, but I am not a killer because a killer is a monster, and monsters aren’t afraid.
I bet every captain you ever flew under thought you were a gigantic pain in the ass, Fred said finally. I believe my record reflects that, Holden said, trying to hide his relief.
How many times can you get yourself massively irradiated before it catches up with you? At least once more?
History itself was a massive n=1 study, irreproducible. It was what made it so difficult to learn from. After
His name put in with the great traitors, con men, and self-aggrandizing egomaniacs of history.
He was kind of a pain in the ass, wasn’t he? Holden said. That man could take a visitation from God with thirty underdressed angels announcing that sex was okay after all and make it seem vaguely depr...
Han thought again of mystical energy fields and said a quiet thank-you to whoever or whatever might be looking out for them
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...
Falling awake.
Everything about the former colonial administrative offices made Holden sad. The drab, institutional green walls, the cluster of cubicles in the central workspace, the lack of windows or architectural...
Every great nation, they said, was founded on a knife and a lie.
Computers, it seemed, could be programmed to do almost anything but sense when someone was up to no good.
But we don’t run on facts. We run on stories about things. About people.
And how are you doing? He didn't ask because he needed an answer. He asked because he needed her to know the answer mattered to him.
Also, Nathan, if you’re listening, and I assume you are, I’m the best and only friend you’ve got. Give her permission to share what she has, or I swear to God I’ll have you turning tricks out of a pre...
Against all evidence, I keep thinking the assholes are outliers.
Wasn’t built to fix shit humanity broke, Miller said. I didn’t come here to open gates for you and get the lockdown to let you go. That’s incidental. The thing that made me just builds roads. And now...