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...
Take a bar of metal and put a single notch in it. The two lengths thus defined have a relationship that can be expressed as the ratio between them. In theory, therefore, any rational number can be exp...
So are you conscious? The alien robot—the skin the Miller construct was using—shrugged. It was strange how well the gesture translated. Don’t know. Seems like I’m acing my Turing test, though. Elvi
Recycled air that had passed through a million lungs. Water from the tap so clean it could be used for lab work, but it had been piss and shit and tears and blood and would be again. The circle of lif...
Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, but it is the mother of any number of other things as well: sacrifice and monstrosity and metamorphosis. Necessity is the mother of all necessary thing...
My love is a pure love, Alex said with a grin. I wouldn’t sully it by actually, you know, doin’ anything about it. The kind poets write about, then.
Mom, Holden said. Earthers and Belters can have kids just fine. We’re not a different species.
I’m all for forgiveness and bygones being bygones, but it’s easier to stomach that after the assholes are all dead.
It’s weird as tits on a bishop, but who knows if it means anything? They’re
It was what came of being a primate with a body built for the Pleistocene savanna. Fear and relief and lust and joy were all packed into the same little network of nerves somewhere deep in his amygdal...
It was normal to sacrifice animals. Rats, pigeons, pigs. Dogs. Chimpanzees. Biology had always suffered the cognitive push-pull of proving that humans were just another kind of animal while at the sam...
It had been the most complex, difficult feat of mass-scale engineering humanity had ever accomplished until the next thing they did.
It gets better, though. Right? Sometimes. Sometimes it’s just one shit sandwich after another.
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 order to be heard by the oppressing class, one must speak as a member of it. Not only the language, but the diction. The accusation of tyranny, however well-founded in fact, is dismissed unless it...
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. The loud, blustering ones were trying to get the other guy to back down. T...
If you don’t have the data you need, play with the data you have, see if something comes out of it.
I thought if you told people facts, they’d draw their conclusions, and because the facts were true, the conclusions mostly would be too. But we don’t run on facts. We run on stories about things.
I thought if you told people , they'd draw their conclusions, and because the facts were true, the conclusions mostly would be too. But we don't run on facts. We run on stories about things. About peo...