Evolution was a paste-and-baling-wire process that came up with half-assed solutions like pushing teeth through babies’ gums and menstruation. Survival of the fittest was a technical term that covered...
The best scientific minds of the system were staring at the data with their jaws slack, and the reason no one was panicking yet was that no one could agree on what they should panic about.
Liev Andropoulous! the boy shouted. You are under arrest for racketeering, slavery, and murder! You are not required to participate in questioning without the presence of an attorney or union represen...
I like the backup plan better, Amos said. Backup plan? Prax asked. The backup plan is I grab the first guy we see, and beat him until he tells us where the kids are. Prax
And what is civilization if it ain't people talking over a goddamned beer?
Humans, Havelock knew from long experience, were first and foremost social animals, and he himself was profoundly human. It was more romantic—hell, more masculine—to pretend he was an island, unaffect...
Lopez reached into his pocket, took out a small packet of white lozenges, and popped one into his mouth. He didn’t offer one to Holden. Lopez’s pupils contracted to tiny points as he sucked the lozeng...
Professionalism, Fred said. Building rapport. Establishing trust. She’s halfway convinced him that whoever he was working for was willing to crack the station open with him still inside it. Once he’s...
Jim, they make these things not to be fiddled with. The civilian version of this device fuses itself into a solid lump of silicon if it thinks it's being tampered with. Who knows what the military ver...
Then why do they act like they hate us? David’s father said with something like triumph. Because that’s what fear looks like when it needs someplace to go.
The thinking behind each decision was lost now in a tangle of database hierarchies and complex reference structures. Finding something interesting was easy. It was all interesting on some level. Findi...
Sure, humans had invaded an extra-dimensional space with wormholes to points scattered across the galaxy, but they'd remembered to bring ferns.
Cioran, bureaucratic heart of the Empire. Or if not heart, kidney. Maybe small bowel.
Need help on your way out? the guard asked. Naw, Amos replied and hoisted the box over one shoulder. I’m good at leaving.
—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...
History is made up of people recovering from the last disaster,
Do we have a plan? A couple, Jim said. Either of them good? Oh, no. Not at all. Just different flavors of terrible.
We’ll be cocked, locked, and ready to rock.
We’ll forget how to do this, Holden thought. Humanity had only just started learning how to live in space, and now they’d forget. Why develop new strategies for surviving on tiny stations like Medina...
After a few decades, you come to a place where you realize that there's really no difference between trying and not trying... If someone is ready to accept Christ, it doesn't take much effort on my pa...
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