Captain, Amos said with mock surprise. Have you actually learned from your past? Is this a new thing you do now?
Change should be watched, moderated, and questioned. But that conservative view shouldn’t rein in progress or put a damper on hope.
Clanking softly through the massive space, that was the thing that haunted him. Not his sins, not even the people he’d killed, but the thought that if he’d killed just one or two more it might have be...
Conspiracy theories come up whenever people feel like the universe is too random. Absurd. If it’s all an enemy plot, at least there’s someone calling the shots.
Desperate psychotic people do desperate psychotic things when they’re exposed. I refuse to grant them immunity from exposure out of fear of their reaction. When you do, the desperate psychos wind up i...
Don’t have them to spare, and that galley doesn’t have crash couches. Everyone in there is pasta sauce, but the El Tee says look anyway.
Epithets like that are an attempt to dehumanize a group so that you won't feel as bad about killing them.
Even in the first morning after the catastrophe began, security teams were calling on Liev’s underlings, sweeping them up for questioning. Some, they held. Others, they released. Burton had no way of...
Excuse me, ma’am. Did you just instruct me to spy on Admiral Nguyen? No, I just asked for a comprehensive audit of all network traffic, and I don’t give a fuck about any results besides Nguyen’s offic...
Falling awake.
Ferns can be very aggressive, Prax said.
Figure two-, three-hundred-kilometer-an-hour winds, lightning, torrential rains. You’re far enough inland to avoid the three-kilometer-high tsunami. Basic wrath of God package, minus drowning,
God might not care about financial standing, but He was the only one.
Han had been in a thousand places like it, all across the galaxy. Some had been as large as star systems, others as small as a back room in a cantina. They were the niches of the universe … They were...
Han thought again of mystical energy fields and said a quiet thank-you to whoever or whatever might be looking out for them
Having a new high consul would be difficult under any circumstances, but it would be less difficult if there were a story with it.
He hadn’t done anything wrong, but the sense of being threatened and the experience of guilt were so closely related that it was hard to feel one without the other. When
He kind of wished he had a hat.
He looked like a kid who just realized he’d jumped in the deep end of the pool and was trying to figure out whether he should embarrass himself by shouting for help or drown with a little dignity.
He was covered in blood. He was pretty sure it was all Butch’s, but not a hundred percent. Sometimes, in the heat of the moment, he missed things like getting shot. He
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