We’re back up and commencing burn in thirty seconds unless someone says otherwise. Everybody get ready to weigh something.
Well, you’ve got a full load of torpedoes and bullets, three Martian warships trailing you, one angry old lady in tea withdrawal, and a Martian Marine who could probably kill you with your own teeth....
Well, someone tell McBride she doesn’t need to shoot us now. Hey, Alex said, his voice thoughtful. If we made those nukes stop listening, that means we can’t shut ’em down, right? Wonder where Fred’s...
We were full of righteous anger and dreams of vengeance when we got here, and a couple of blowjobs and hangovers later it's like nothing ever happened
We have expended two-thirds of our rail-gun ammunition, the weapons tech announced. Shall I maintain fire? Yes, Drummer said. Then start putting chairs in the launcher. We hit that thing until we’re d...
We got a pilot yet? she asked. Alex Kamal is on the ready rotation today, so he’s our man. I kind of wish Valka had been up. He’s not the pilot Alex is, but he’s quieter, and my head hurts. I like Ale...
We don’t want to get in a gunfight, Holden warned Amos as they began moving again. Yeah, Amos said. But if we’re in one anyway, it’ll be nice to have guns.
We all grieve in our own ways, Avasarala said. For what it’s worth, you’ll never kill enough people to keep your platoon from dying. No more than I can save enough people that one of them will be Char...
Water from Saturn, vegetables and beef from the big mirror-fed greenhouses on Ganymede and Europa, organics from Earth and Mars. Power cells from Io, Helium-3 from the refineries on Rhea and Iapetus....
Very few people stood wholly for the law or wholly against it, and so for them the catastrophe of the churn was an annoyance to be avoided or endured or else a titillation on the newsfeeds. That it wa...
Traveling between the planets had never eliminated murder. So many highly evolved primates in the same box for months on end, a certain death rate had to be expected.
Through millions of klicks of vacuum to hit a bull's-eye smaller than a mosquito's asshole.
They’d never precisely been friends, but they’d managed to stop the human race from being wiped out by a corporation’s self-induced sociopathy and a recovered alien weapon that everyone in human histo...
They’d made a plan, and so far everything was more or less going the way they’d hoped. The thought left Holden increasingly terrified.
They loved scenes of righteous Godly vengeance on sinful mankind. They loved to show God’s chosen people safe from harm, watching with happy faces as they were proved right to the world. But they neve...
They don’t know what it’s about, or…you know, at least they don’t know what’s going to happen. This isn’t even built like a torture chamber. It’s all being watched, right? Water and air sensors. It’s...
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 when...
There’s another mess of legal crap just came through from the UN for you. Holden sighed. Am I supposed to read it? Don’t see how they can make you, Amos said. Just thought you’d want to ignore it inte...
There was no better way to seem trustworthy than to be liked by a dog, and there was no better way to convince a dog to like you than bribery.
There was a scuffle, and it got out of hand. Dawes, tell me you’ve never had something like it. I’ve never had something like it, Dawes