The system made the little woody tock that meant she had her privacy again.
Theological anthropology is a lot simpler when humans are the only ones with souls.
There are no souls, Melba thought with a touch of pity. We are bags of meat with a little electricity running through them. No ghosts, no spirits, no souls. The only thing that survives is the story p...
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
There was justice to be had. He just couldn’t afford it.
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’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...
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...
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 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’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...
Thing about civilization, it’s what keeps people civil. You get rid of one, you can’t count on the other.
Time took her strength but it gave her power in exchange. It was a fair trade. She
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...
Well, crew, welcome aboard the gas freighter _Rocinante_.''What does that name even mean?'...'It means we need to go find some windmills
Well, that and a hundred or so gunships, Havelock said. From what I hear, Miller said, if you clap your hands and say you believe, they can’t shoot you.
We’re back up and commencing burn in thirty seconds unless someone says otherwise. Everybody get ready to weigh something.
What are they going to do about it?So far? Get drunk. Yell at each other or at us. Design theoretical judicial systems. Most of them seem to want the whole thing to just go away sot hey can get on wit...
What are you going to do? The same thing as always. Try to keep civilization from blowing up while the children are in it.
What bothers you? Nadia asked. Michio nodded at the wall. All this. Doing what I’m about to do. You don’t think it’s right? I don’t know if that matters. I mean, Marco does what he thinks is right. An...
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