Time was supposed to heal all wounds. To Drummer, that was just a nice way of saying that if she waited long enough, none of the things that seemed important to her would turn out to matter
Those kids? They’re illegal, but they don’t just vanish, not
This is your house...If they don't respect you here, they won't respect you anywhere.
They’re all fucking men, she said. Excuse me? Soren said. The generals. They’re all fucking men. I thought Souther was the only— I don’t mean that they all fuck men. I mean they’re all men, the fucker...
They’d made the bricks from the local earth, processed through some of the mining equipment and fired in a kiln powered by combustion. It could only have been more primitive if they’d dug a cave and p...
They weren’t really stopping, of course. Nothing in space ever actually stopped; it only came into a matching orbit with some other object. They were now following CA-2216862 on its merry millennium-l...
They say revenge is empty. This is my first try at it, Holden said. Forgive me if my opinions on it are fairly unformed.
They don’t hate us, Bobbie said, her voice tired. They’re afraid of us. Then why do they act like they hate us? David’s father said with something like triumph. Because that’s what fear looks like whe...
There was something liberating and terrifying about the first day on a new job. In any new assignment, Bobbie had always had the unsettling feeling that she was in over her head, that she wouldn’t kno...
There are two sides in this, but they aren’t inner planets and outer ones. Belters and everyone else. It’s not like that. It’s the people who want more violence and the ones who want less. And no matt...
There are people I love. There are people who have loved me. I fought for what I believed, protected those I could, and stood my ground against the encroaching darkness. Good enough.
The usual state of nature is recovering from the last disaster, she said. It was a truism of ecological biologists, and she said it the way a religious person might pray. To make sense of what she saw...
The truth was her version wasn’t any more or less a fantasy than his. No one would know for sure until everyone knew for sure.
The thing Alex Kamal liked most about the long haul was how it changed the experience of time. The weeks—sometimes months—spent on the burn were like stepping out of history into some small, separate...
The slow zone, based on the sensor data we’re able to get, is approximately one million kilometers across. Holden pointed at the 3D representation on the screen behind him. There are no visible stars,...
The pleasantries were just ritual, but ritual was important. In Amos’ experience the more dangerous any two people were, the more carefully polite their social interactions tended to be. The loud, blu...
The pachinko machines lit them blue and green and shrieked in artificial delight.
The old man was brilliant at looking somber and energetic at the same time. If he hadn’t been the executive of the largest governing body in the history of the human race, he’d have made a killing pro...
The long-haul transport was named the Lazy Songbird, but its birdlike qualities began and ended at the white letters painted on its side. From the outside, it looked like a giant garbage can with a dr...