I know it's none of my business, but I really wouldn't let her put you off. So you don't understand sex and love and women. Just means you were born with a cock. And this girl? Naomi? She seems like s...
She was not a political creature. She felt that politics was the second most evil thing humanity had ever invented, just after lutefisk. There
Since this used to be a Martian ship, I thought maybe you’d have reloads that would fit our racks. Sure, Captain Tseng said without a moment’s hesitation. I’ll have the destroyer Sally Ride pull along...
It’s all fun and games till someone shoots back, Holden thought.
We’re all going to lose each other eventually, and that’s been true since before we were a crew. That’s what being born means. Everything else is just specifics.
People used to think gold was worth fightin’ over, and that shit gets made by every supernova, which means pretty much every planet around a G2 star will have some. Stars burn through lithium as fast...
If you fuck with him after this, I will end every piece of you.
Really? Ip said, leaning forward. Her knee pressed against Alex’s in a way that was absolutely innocent. Unless it wasn’t, in which case it absolutely wasn’t. Never
Later, Amos said, when you’re wishing we had this stuff, I am going to be merciless in my mockery. And then we’ll die. Holden
Ren, her official second, was a Belter and, like all Belters, passionate about environmental control systems the way normal people were with sex or religion.
Probably the most common last words that day were going to be Huh, that’s weird. That or Oh shit.
Cap, Amos said with a grin. Anything that kills me has already killed everyone else. I was born to be the last man standing. You can count on it. The
Conspiracy theories come up whenever people feel like the universe is too random.
There aren’t any new starts, Bobbie said. All the new ones pack the old ones along with them. If we ever really started fresh, it’d mean not having a history anymore. I don’t know how to do that.
The idea of trying to reconnect to humanity again filled him with the presentiment of exhaustion.
He looked at the cop. He’d known the man less than a day, didn’t trust him, and wasn’t sure he much liked him. And this was who he’d die with.
Drinking coffee was one of the activities that didn’t make the transition to microgravity well, but at half a g, it was fine.
One more chance to try being the person that the situation called for instead of just herself.
Platinum, iron, and titanium from the Belt. Water from Saturn, vegetables and beef from the big mirror-fed greenhouses on Ganymede and Europa, organics from Earth and Mars. Power cells from Io, Helium...
The bank of lockers was down, the airlock door up. Human brains needed an answer, even if they had to make up something they knew was bullshit.
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