Let me get this straight, he said. You’ll give me all the kingdoms of the Earth if I just bow down and do one act of worship for you? Dresden
That was what decades of marriage were for. Intimacy and pattern matching as a kind of telepathy.
People want Inaros to be a hero, and so what he does, they interpret as heroism. Even
That's what it's come to, Miller thought, rubbing a hand across his chin. Pogroms after all. Cut off just a hundred more heads, just a thousand more heads, just ten thousand more heads, and then we'll...
She was not a political creature. She felt that politics was the second most evil thing humanity had ever invented, just after lutefisk.
Did the universe evolve eyes and wings and sense organs and bitter amusement at the prospect of death all the same way? Okay,
It'd be a better world if there was always at least one right answer instead of a bucket of fucked. -Chrisjen Avasarala
Prologue: Manéo M
Your fancy alien train is broken? My fancy alien material transfer system has been sitting unused for over a billion years and half the planet just exploded. Your ship was built less than a decade ago...
Science had given mankind many gifts, and she valued it. But the one important thing it had taken away was the value of subjective, personal experience. That had been replaced with the idea that only...
Stupidity was usually a lesser crime than vigilantism.
I told you before that Johnson would be off the board, and he will be. We didn’t take him at Tycho, and we’ll take him somewhere else. He is my white whale, and I will hunt him to the end of time. Ros...
The moral complexity of the situation had grown past his ability to process it, so he just relaxed in the warm glow of victory instead.
Chapter Two: Filip
There’s a thing that happens, Avasarala said, when unthinkable things become thinkable. We’re in a moment of chaos. Everything’s up for grabs. Legitimacy itself is up for grabs. That’s where we are no...
We came out here with an operational plan, she said. If we start rewriting it every time we find an adjustment we’d like to make, we might as well not have bothered. Privately, Bull thought the same t...
You never ask for permission, you just apologize later.
Welcome to Tycho Station, said the Butcher of Anderson Station. Call me Fred.
Do we have a plan?A couple. Jim said.Either of them good?Oh, no. Not at all. Just different flavors of terrible.
—it reaches out it reaches out it reaches out it reaches out— One hundred and thirteen times a second, nothing answers and it reaches out. It is not conscious, though parts of it are. There are struct...
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