Every empire grows until its reach exceeds its grasp.
Everywhere, all through the city, space was at a premium. Extended families lived in decaying apartments designed for half as many. Men and women who couldn’t escape the cramped space spent their days...
For something that had been expecting prokaryotic anaerobes, it was doing a bang-up job of making do.
Fred laughed. It was mirthless. Let me get this straight, he said. You’ll give me all the kingdoms of the Earth if I just bow down and do one act of worship for you? Dresden cocked his head. I don’t k...
He had given himself permission to be afraid. It made all the difference.
He had to restrain himself from stroking the stainless steel cover while it made gentle percolating noises.
He understood the flaw in that logic: if comforting them comforted him, maybe comforting him comforted them, and they could all drive the ship into a rock while they smiled at each other.
His smile was curious and as serene as a well-fed predator.
History, Michio believed, was a long series of surprises that seemed inevitable in retrospect.
Holden shot him in the throat. Somewhere in his brain stem, Detective Miller nodded in approval.
Human brains needed an answer, even if they had to make up something they knew was bullshit. A
I keep warning you. Doors and corners, kid. That’s where they get you. Humans are too fucking stupid to listen. Well, you’ll learn your lessons soon enough, and it’s not my job to nursemaid the specie...
I'm getting a medal for falling into a pressure hatch, sacrificing an arm and a leg to keep seven sailors from being trapped in a compromised part of the ship. I was unconscious at the time, but that...
If Miller squinted, he could see the seventeen-year-old boy he had been under the layers of time and disappointment
If life transcends death, then I will seek for you there. If not, then there too,
If someone is ready to accept Christ, it doesn't take much effort on my part to help them. If they aren't, no amount of hectoring them does any good. So why try?
In the middle column, the colony ships she and her fleet had taken: the Bedyadat Jadida, out of Luna. The John Galt and the Mark Watney, out of Mars. The
Inaros isn’t going to chase after the Giambattista and Rocinante, because he’ll be distracted by the largest and most aggressive fleet action in history kicking his balls up into his throat. By the ti...
Is that possible? the duty officer said, her voice small and tight. Only if you define ‘possible’ as things that have already happened, Naomi said, not turning to look at her.
It gets better, though. Right? Sometimes. Sometimes it’s just one shit sandwich after another.
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