I’m not sure dying free is as attractive when it stops being rhetorical.
I’m an engineer, Gareth said, spitting out the word so violently it gave him a degree of spin. Did eight years on Tycho Station! I’m not going to get used like a fucking technician.
It’s weird as tits on a bishop, but who knows if it means anything? They’re
It’s not that bad. Conspiracy theories come up whenever people feel like the universe is too random. Absurd. If it’s all an enemy plot, at least there’s someone calling the shots.
It’s not healthy having God sleeping right there where we can all watch him dream. It scares the shit out of us. It scares the shit out of me.
It’s always been like this, he thinks. From when Moses saw the promised land that he could never enter, people have been on their deathbeds just wanting to see what happens next. He wonders if that’s...
It was, Elvi thought, like finding a sea turtle who thoroughly understood Godel’s incompleteness theorem, but didn’t have any sea-turtley application for it.
It was the widest concerted attack ever. Hundreds of ships on at least four sides. Dozens of stations, millions of lives. Among the stars, it didn’t stand out.
It was like solving a complex math puzzle without any promise that an optimal solution existed.
It was late. Late to start again. Late to realize how many years he’d spent running down the wrong road.
It was all going to hell. The pirate casts from the OPA calling for war. The burgeoning guerrilla actions. All of it. The time was coming that Mars wasn’t going to ignore them anymore. And when Mars t...
It was a lesson he’d never forgotten. That humans only have so much emotional energy. No matter how intense the situation, or how powerful the feelings, it was impossible to maintain a heightened emot...
It takes something to stand out a little, and you can’t swing a dead cat on Ganymede without hitting five botany PhDs.
It seems to me the better question is whether there’s any virtue in committing to a permanent and unexamined certainty.
It had been the most complex, difficult feat of mass-scale engineering humanity had ever accomplished until the next thing they did.
It had been a failure, but it was a failure he understood, and that made it a victory.
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...
In his experience, everyone dealt with pushing too hard differently. Some got angry and irritable, some got sad. At a guess, it was all loss of inhibition. Wear down the façade with too much work or f...
In Amos’ experience the more dangerous any two people were, the more carefully polite their social interactions tended to be.
In Amos’ experience the more dangerous any two people were, the more carefully polite their social interactions tended to be. The loud, blustering ones were trying to get the other guy to back down. T...