The problem with living with miracles was that they made everything seem plausible.
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 only right you have with anyone in life is the right to walk away.
The name ROCINANTE was on the wall in letters as broad as his hand, and someone had added a stencil of a spray of yellow narcissus. It looked desperately out of place and very appropriate at the same...
The idea that animal suffering is less important than human suffering is a religious one. It assumes a special creation, and that we—you and I—are different in kind than other animals. We are morally...
The dog-faced, small-cocked, hypocrite bastard son of a weasel and a whore bowed and escorted his wife from the house.
The deep human instinct to come together in crisis. To take care of each other. In its best light, it was what made humanity human. But he also had the dark suspicion that it was a kind of bargaining....
The circle of life on Ceres was so small you could see the curve. He liked it that way.
The best governments in history have been kings and emperors, Duarte said. The worst ones too. A philosopher-king can manage great things in his lifetime. And his grandchildren can squander it.
The best find hadn’t been in the bunker, though. The garage had a half-dozen unused but well-maintained bicycles, complete with saddlebags. Even
The bartender – Chip – said, Had a few too many of my margaritas? The first one was too many, Holden replied, then climbed under the booth looking for the terminal. And calling that a margarita should...
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 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...
That’s the secret, you know. What’s the secret? Kajri smiled. The people who have power over you are weak too. They shit and bleed and worry that their children don’t love them anymore. They’re embarr...
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...
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.
Someone would run a card game or set up a pachinko parlor or start a little protection racket. People would be bribed to do things or not do things. It was what happened when you put people together.
Someone just broke pretty much all of human civilization overnight. The
So how did you wind up joining the Rebellion?An old guy and a kid were looking for a ride and I needed the money, Han said. After that, it was just bad luck.
So either panicking amateurs or something critical to defend, Holden said. A metal canister the size of a fist rolled through the gateway, clanking. Amos picked the grenade up casually and tossed it b...