As soon as we get the place secure, I’ll get in touch, Miller said. Okay, but don’t take too long. If Thoth Station has a whorehouse left standing, I’m going to need help prying Amos out of it.
Avasarala: ... and I understand that you've got a few after-market add-ons?Keel-mounted rail gun! Alex said with a grin. That scream of overcompensating for tiny, tiny penises, but might prove useful,...
Basic problem solving. If you don’t have the data you need, play with the data you have, see if something comes out of it. She’d
Because he’s Amos. He’s like a pit bull. You know he could tear your throat out, but he’s loyal to a fault and you just want to hug him. She
Becca found something, and it is sufficiently weird to make my balls creep up. We’re getting the hell out of here.
Been brooding the whole time? she asked. Some of it, yeah. Did it help? Nope. Right. Spring into action, then? He nodded at the amber door alarm. Not yet. She glanced down. The override light flickere...
Before Prax had gotten married, he’d seen a dance performance based on neo-Taoist traditions. For the first hour, it had been utterly boring, and then after that, the small movements of arms and legs...
Belters had been a structural underclass fighting to have people on the inner planets even notice when they were dying.
Boarding a ship was one of the riskiest maneuvers in naval combat. It was basically a race between the boarders rushing to the engine room and the collective will of those who had their fingers on the...
Bobbie ignored the macho posturing. Everyone dealt with pre-combat jitters in their own way. Bobbie preferred obsessive list making. But flexing and threats were good too.
Burton had sent Timmy to collect a debt, Timmy had killed the man instead, and Burton hadn’t cut him loose. Two points defined a line, but three defined the playing field. Burton didn’t always have ne...
Burton’s misfortune was to be born where and when he was, in a city of scars and vice, in an age when the division in the popular mind was between living on government-funded basic support or having a...
Chapter 21 : Elvi We could always mutiny, Fayez said brightly.We wouldn’t stand a chance, Travon said. I did the nav analysis. Tiamat's Wrath
Dawkinsian
Did he kill anyone? Erich asked. When neither guard answered, he said, Then he’s still being polite.
Distributed responsibility is the problem. One person gives the order, another carries it out. One can say they didn’t pull the trigger, the other that they were just doing what they were told, and ev...
Doors and corners are always dangerous, because you’re moving into something without being sure what’s there. By the time you see the enemy, you’re exposed to them. Sir? Havelock
Downtime’s easier to enjoy when I know it’ll end.
Easy to make rules, Emma said. Easy to make systems with a perfect logic and rigor. All you need to do is leave out the mercy, yeah? Then when you put people into it and they get chewed to nothing, it...
Every empire grow until its reach exceeds its grasp
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