When you got right down to it, humans were still just curious monkeys. They still had to poke everything they found with a stick to see what it did. The
The reactor had gone on Aten Base, his partner and supervisor had both panicked, and Havelock remembered the overwhelming fear in his own gut. When the riots had started on Ceres after the ice hauler...
Strange how a person could be so vitally important in your life, and yet you had nothing to say to them when they weren’t sharing the same air.
Positioning Medina Station as the logical location for a fledgling League of Planets–type government, he at least had the good sense not to say it out loud.
It was impossible to forget that they were going into the unknown. Here there be monsters.
He talked about shifting strategies like they were the middle part of metamorphosis. Apparently when a caterpillar makes a cocoon, the next thing it does is melt. Completely liquefies. And then all th...
Your empire's hands look a lot cleaner when you get to dictate where history begins, and what parts of it count.
You think he may be a triple agent? It wouldn’t be the first time something like that had happened. The one thing you know about someone who’s willing to compromise his allies is that he’s willing to...
You killed Dresden, Fred said. That’s a problem. It needed to happen. I’m not sure it did, Fred replied, but his voice was careful. Testing. Miller smiled, a little sadly. That’s why it needed to happ...
You can’t stop here, Holden said. You have to stop running and get on the right road. Miller looked over his shoulder. The captain stood, real and not, where his inner Julie would have been. Well, tha...
Will you be back? Lydia said. She hadn’t meant to, because she knew in her heart, in her bones, and deeper than that what the answer was. Timmy smiled at her for the last time. I take it back, she tho...
Why do I put up with your shit? Because, Amos said, starting to strip an assault rifle down to its component parts, I’m the only one on the ship that can keep the coffee maker running.
When what came next didn’t matter, anybody could do anything. Nothing had consequences.
What? Naomi said, an uncertain smile on her lips. Miller blinked. You were laughing a little, Naomi said. I don’t think I’ve ever seen you laugh before. I mean, not when something was funny. I was jus...
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...
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.
Well, crew, welcome aboard the gas freighter _Rocinante_.''What does that name even mean?'...'It means we need to go find some windmills
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...
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....
Time took her strength but it gave her power in exchange. It was a fair trade. She