Sometimes you don't get redeemed... Not every stain comes out. Sometimes you do something bad enough that you carry the consequences for the rest of your life and take the regrets to the grave. That's...
Some sins carried their own punishment. Sometimes redemption meant carrying the past with you forever. She’d gotten used to that over the years, but it was still pretty fucking inconvenient.
So how does the Epstein drive work? Very well. Efficiently.
Shit, Amos said. And here I was enjoying being so absolutely thumb-up-the-ass useless. You
She pulled a sheer yellow scarf over her hair, swathed her neck, and tied it at her sternum, the ironic echo of her old hijab.
She noticed Amos watching her. He had a dopey grin on his face. Seriously. Now? she said. We're talking about your captain going off to his death, and all that's going through your head right now is '...
She felt that politics was the second most evil thing humanity had ever invented, just after lutefisk.
Sex, in Michio’s experience, was like music. Or language. It could express anything. Now it was rage and sorrow and need.
Rebecca Byers, the comm officer on duty, could have been bred from a shark and a hatchet. Black eyes, sharp features, lips so thin they might as well not have existed. The story on board was that she’...
Prepare us for what? Holden asked. To poke gods with a sharp stick? No, Captain Holden. No sticks, Duarte said. When you fight gods, you storm heaven.
Posthuman. It was a word that came up in the media every five or six years, and it meant different things every time. Neural regrowth hormone? Posthuman. Sex robots with inbuilt pseudo intelligence? P...
Or spadefoot toads in the deserts? In the dry periods, their eggs would just desiccate, so the adults go dormant until there’s rain, and then they come back awake and go out to the puddles and mate fu...
Only, so far, it was like a bunch of lizards watching the World Cup. Politely put, they weren’t sure what they were looking at.
Only here on Earth, where food grew on its own, where air was just a by-product of random untended plants, where resources lay thick on the ground, could a person actually choose not to do anything at...
Oh good, Amos replied. Somebody got killed there. That’s how we claim stuff, you know. This planet is officially ours now.
Nothing ever killed more people than being afraid to look like a sissy. Holden’s
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...
No rest for the wicked, no peace for the good.
No more leave, Holden said. Holy shit. Right? Alex said. I take off for a few weeks, and everything turns into chaos. It really, really does. Holden went to the coffee maker and Alex followed at his e...
No matter how intense the situation, or how powerful the feelings, it was impossible to maintain a heightened emotional state forever. Eventually you’d just get tired and want it to end.