A world no longer of haves and have-nots, but of the engaged and the apathetic.
A warning tone sounded through the drum, echoing with the distance and the free air. An artificial voice reassured them with its tone while it repeated, 'This is an emergency alert. Report to shelters...
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 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...
Now he was about to be killed because of yet another petty human with more power than sense. It didn’t seem fair.
You have allied yourself with stupid, violent men, and you are trying to convince yourself that being stupid and violent will work. That makes you stupid too. I will never help you. I’ll fight you now...
You don’t have a right thing, friend, Miller said. You’ve got a whole plateful of maybe a little less wrong.
When Holden pointed out that the Roci was already capable of accelerating fast enough to kill her crew and asked why they’d need to upgrade her, Amos had replied, Because this shit is awesome. Holden...
We’re not people, he said. We’re the stories that people tell each other about us. Belters are crazy terrorists. Earthers are lazy gluttons. Martians are cogs in a great big machine. Men are fighters,...
We’re like children, Anna said, pushing herself to her feet and lecturing down at him. Who burn their hands on a hot stove and then think the solution is to blow up all the stoves.
There’s a damaged piece of the system ahead, Miller continued, and I’d hoped we’d be able to get around it. No such luck. We’re on foot from here. Your fancy alien train is broken? My fancy alien mate...
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.
No, it wasn’t. It was the scariest fucking answer to Fermi’s paradox I can think of. Do you know why there aren’t any Indians in your Old West analogy? Because they’re already dead. The whatever-they-...
It was possible she was hurling her prayers at a cold and unfeeling universe that didn’t hear them, but that wasn’t how it felt. Science had given mankind many gifts, and she valued it. But the one im...
How many captains of stolen ships did it take to equal one disgraced UN official? That could tie a courtroom up for a few decades.
He’d read accounts of extravehicular euphoria, but the experience was unlike anything he’d imagined. He was the eye of God, drinking in the light of infinite stars, and he was a speck of dust on a spe...
If Miller had brought him all this way just to let him die in an abandoned train car, it was the longest prank setup in history.
Heroism is a label most people get for doing shit they’d never do if they were really thinking about it. Anna