Tachi’s galley had a full kitchen and a table with room for twelve. It also had a full-size coffeepot that could brew forty cups of coffee in less than five minutes whether the ship was in zero g or u...
Taking the things that other people thought they deserved to keep was dangerous work.
That moment of shaking had been a whole battle too abrupt for a human mind to follow. He wasn’t sure if that was amazing or terrifying. Maybe there was room for both.
That was the danger of being old and a politician. Habits outlived the situations that created them. Policies remained in place after the situations that inspired them had changed. The calculus of all...
The Ring didn’t put us on alert, he said. It’s the Martians. Even with that thing out there, we’re still thinking about shooting each other. That’s pretty fucked up. Sorry. Messed up. It seems like we...
The Tachi’s galley had a full kitchen and a table with room for twelve. It also had a full-size coffeepot that could brew forty cups of coffee in less than five minutes whether the ship was in zero g...
The advantage of being in command of all the guns was that no matter how nicely you asked for something, it was still an order.
The ancient, animal story, the same whether it was on a spinning rock surrounded by hard vacuum or the stamp-sized chimpanzee preserves on Earth. Even in the Belt, youth brought invulnerability, immor...
The circle of life on Ceres was so small you could see the curve. He liked it that way.
The circle of life on Ceres was so small you could see the curve.
The dog-faced, small-cocked, hypocrite bastard son of a weasel and a whore bowed and escorted his wife from the house.
The doors opened, and the first zombies appeared. Men and women, their eyes glassy and their muscles slack, stumbled out through the open doors. Miller had seen a documentary feed about hemorrhagic fe...
The enemy of my enemy is my friend? That’s bullshit. There are always more than two sides. Pretending it’s only one or else the other is what let that sonofabitch carry so much weight in the OPA for a...
The entire idea of it was arrogant and defiant and grandiose. Anna loved it.As she walked across a wide empty plain of steel that should have been covered in topsoil and crops, she thought that this a...
The millions of skin-bound complications of salt water and minerals that were human bodies scattered throughout the Belt still needed food and air and clean water, energy and shelter.
The ones that don’t kill you don’t count.
The only right you have with anyone in life is the right to walk away.
The others had been laughing until Bobbie reminded them that low-power radio wasn’t radio silence and politely suggested they all shut the fuck up instead of getting the team killed.
The problem with living with miracles was that they made everything seem plausible.
The seas had been around longer than humans, had helped create them, and then when they were all dead, it’d take their water back without a thought.
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