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But, like so many things in life, when you come to the spot where you're supposed to do the rituals, you do them.
Holden thought he had probably been a very good scientist. Thrilled by small victories, undeterred by setbacks.
now he was about to be killed because of yet another petty human with more power than sense. It didn't seem fair.
That's what peace is, right? Postponing the conflict until the thing you were fighting over doesn't matter.
Elvi blinked in puzzlement as Murtry left. "Is he mad at me?" "Sweetie," Amos said, clapping her on the back, "that just means you're not an asshole.
There is a civilization out there that built the protomolecule and hurled it at us over two billion years ago. They were already gods at that point.
If they had to transport black market human organs or drugs or sexbots or whatever was in those crates, he'd do it. Because he was scared.
Well, mostly I'm a mechanic. But the idea that the UN has a file on me somewhere that lists me as the Rocinante's killer? That's kind of awesome.
How many times can you get yourself massively irradiated before it catches up with you?" "At least once more?
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.
Stupid. Shortsighted. A man born with a sense for raw opportunity where his soul should have been. Miller's
This is deep. Drowning deep. And you know what they say about going in after a drowning man, right? Sematimba
No fame and glory for you, Cortez. Montezuma wasn't impressed by your fire stick this time." "Everything
Everywhere, there was imbalance, and the surest path to profit was to be between something valuable and someone who valued it.
So you're trying to get me prepared for one of my crew dying?" "Historically speaking, humans are pretty much at a hundred percent on that.
You've got a pit bull on one side of you and a rottweiler on the other, first thing you do is drop your steak. Miller
It had been the most complex, difficult feat of mass-scale engineering humanity had ever accomplished until the next thing they did.
He'd turned away from a life on basic to live in the stars, or if not the stars, at least the rocks that floated free in the night sky.
I think we need to leave now," Holden said, fear making the words come fast. "Like now now. Not later now.
Anderson Dawes," the pocked man said. "I'm the Ceres liaison for the Outer Planets Alliance. I think we can help each other. May I come in?" Miller
In her prison gown, she looked like a ghost. Something already dead that hadn't stopped moving yet. Which, he figured, might be accurate.
Annie," Tilly said. "If I wanted to suck vile fluids out of a flaccid and indifferent tube, I'd have stayed on Earth with my husband.
I'm a long-flight pilot. Pushing a little bubble of air-filled metal across an ocean of nothing is what I was born to do.
Naomi coughed. It was wet, painful sound, but the medical bay didn't seem concerned. The machine had a shitty bedside manner.
It seems to me the better question is whether there's any virtue in committing to a permanent and unexamined certainty.
We're back up and commencing burn in thirty seconds unless someone says otherwise. Everybody get ready to weigh something.
Naomi shrugged with her hands, then started pulling her hair behind her head and tying it up with a red elastic band.
Generation ship," Holden said. "Something like that will give us the stars." "Or a lonely death on a long trip to nowhere," Miller replied. "You
She felt that politics was the second most evil thing humanity had ever invented, just after lutefisk. There
I keep warning you. Doors and corners, kid. That's where they get you. Humans are too fucking stupid to listen.
They'd made a plan, and so far everything was more or less going the way they'd hoped. The thought left Holden increasingly terrified.
Yes, you're in charge. That makes me XO, and it's the XO's job to tell the captain when he's being an idiot. You're being an idiot, sir.
That man could take a visitation from God with thirty underdressed angels announcing that sex was okay after all and make it seem vaguely depressing.
her sensor package could track a golf ball and hit it with a torpedo from half the solar system away." "Oh,
It's not healthy having God sleeping right there where we can all watch him dream. It scares the shit out of us. It scares the shit out of me.
This kind of thing requires secrecy to function, so exposing all the secrets hurts them in the end. It's the only way this really, permanently stops.
Thing about civilization, it's what keeps people civil. You get rid of one, you can't count on the other.
Keel-mounted rail gun," Alex said with a grin. " - that scream of overcompensating for tiny, tiny penises, but might prove useful.
I believe there is a dignity in consequences, Captain. I think there's a kind of truth in them, and I try to cultivate a profound respect for truth.
No one lived forever. But you fought for every minute you could get. Bought a little more with a lot of hard work.
It was late. Late to start again. Late to realize how many years he'd spent running down the wrong road.
In Amos' experience the more dangerous any two people were, the more carefully polite their social interactions tended to be.
Do we have a plan?" "A couple," Jim said. "Either of them good?" "Oh, no. Not at all. Just different flavors of terrible.
Basic problem solving. If you don't have the data you need, play with the data you have, see if something comes out of it. She'd