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.
There really wasn’t any such thing as a mixed church group. No matter what they looked like, or what they chose to call Him, when a group of people called out to God together, they were one.
Wasn’t built to fix shit humanity broke, Miller said. I didn’t come here to open gates for you and get the lockdown to let you go. That’s incidental. The thing that made me just builds roads. And now...
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
While he spoke, he never even made it in front of the ethics review. Quit the day before. Made a lot of fuss, walking through the lab and yelling that we weren’t going to be able to push him around an...
You’d scare the shit out of me, so don’t feel the need to prove it. But no matter how scared I am, I’m not backing down on this.
When the lights went out. It wasn’t just the lights. So many things about his physical situation changed all at once that his hindbrain couldn’t keep up. It told him to be nauseated just in case he’d...
A decent idea now is way better than a brilliant plan when it’s too late. I
A few people liked to paint this drive as a weakness. A failing of the species. Humanity as the virus. The creature that never stops filling up its available living space. Hector seemed to be moving o...
A flock of softball-sized spiderlike things crawled through the corridor, leaving a slick sheen of glowing slime behind them. It wasn’t until he paused to knock one off the cart that he recognized the...
A hundred and fifty years before, when the parochial disagreements between Earth and Mars had been on the verge of war, the Belt had been a far horizon of tremendous mineral wealth beyond viable econo...
A kid born today would grow up in a world where carbon-silicate lace was as common as titanium or glass. That it was a collaboration between humanity and the ghosts of a massive and alien intelligence...
A lot of people claim to believe in things. ‘Family is most important,’ but they’ll screw a fifty-dollar hooker on payday. ‘Country first,’ but they cheat on their taxes. Not you, though. You say ever...
Amos will be murdered by space hookers, but at least he’ll die the way he lived.
And the moral high ground is a lovely place, Marwick said, as if he were agreeing. It won’t stop a missile, though.
As soon as he took his chair, the waitress came over, her eyebrows raised, as if he were a new customer. He waved her away. There was something about sitting at an empty table in full view of hungry m...
Avasarala laughed at that. True. But if he’s sending his hired killer to Earth, we— Wait, what? If Holden was— Forget Holden. You called me his hired killer. Is that how you guys think of me? The kill...
Basia floated next to the gunner’s seat watching the hateful math spool out across the screen. She
Bobbie kept talking. Seriously. Get me a gun, I'm a soldier. Get that suit for me, I'm a superhero.
Can’t expect everyone to be on the same page. We’re still humans after all. Some percentage of us are always going to be assholes.
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