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It killed humans, therefore it was a weapon. But radiation killed humans, and a medical X-ray machine wasn't intended as a weapon. Holden was starting to feel like they were all monkeys playing with a microwave.
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Husband and wife seems like a less interesting and committed relationship than Holden and Naomi
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In his experience, everyone dealt with pushing too hard differently. Some got angry and irritable, some got sad. At a guess, it was all loss of inhibition. Wear down the facade with too much work or fear or both, and whoever was waiting underneath came out. "All"
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What are you thinking, Amos?" "Nothing real subtle. Figure we hop outside, kill a few assholes that need killing, patch stuff up when we're done with the first part." Naomi"
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rest of
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It's what's missing in all of this," Holden said. "It's what let things get this bad. We don't see each other as people. Even the feeds are always about weird things. Aberrations. All the times that a Belt station doesn't have a riot? Those days aren't news. It has to be an uprising or a protest or a system failure. Just being here, living a normal life? That's not part of what the people on Earth or Mars hear about."
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it was impossible to forget that they were going into the unknown. Here there be monsters.
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What's your doctorate in?" she asked. "Um. Structural biochemistry?" "Do you know what mine's in?" He shook his head for a change. "Not structural biochemistry," she said gently. "I"
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Naomi made an exasperated sound. It was funny, he thought, how you could make someone's voice out from the smallest sounds. A cough or a sigh. Or the little gasp right before she died.
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Desperate psychotic people do desperate psychotic things when they're exposed. I refuse to grant them immunity from exposure out of fear of their reaction. When you do, the desperate psychos wind up in charge." She" --
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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"
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If humanity were capable of being satisfied, then they'd all still be living in trees and eating bugs out of one another's fur.
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Heroism is a label most people get for doing shit they'd never do if they were really thinking about it." Anna"
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The best find hadn't been in the bunker, though. The garage had a half-dozen unused but well-maintained bicycles, complete with saddlebags. Even
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She was not a political creature. She felt that politics was the second most evil thing humanity had ever invented, just after lutefisk. There
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He saw his coming death, and wasn't afraid of it anymore. He'd miss all the good stuff to follow, but he'd help make it happen. And a very good person loved him. It was more than most people got in a lifetime. A
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now he was about to be killed because of yet another petty human with more power than sense. It didn't seem fair.
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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"
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Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It's attractive because it's simple, it's direct, it's almost always available as an option. When you can't think of a good rebuttal for your opponent's argument, you can always punch them in the face. They'd
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My love is a pure love," Alex said with a grin. "I wouldn't sully it by actually, you know, doin' anything about it." "The"
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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. Finding some particular piece of information--and knowing whether it was the most recent or complete version of the data--was very, very difficult. She
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Holy shit," Holden said. "Did you just magic that door open?"
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I love you very much," Avasarala said. "Knowing you has let me bear the unbearable." Arjun"
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The usual state of nature is recovering from the last disaster,
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the lizard living at the base of her spine
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Under the best conditions, disasters and plagues did that. It wasn't universally true. There would always be hoarders and price gouging, people who closed their doors to refugees and left them freezing and starving. But the impulse to help was there too. To carry a burden together, even if it meant having less for yourself.
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It wasn't just the size of it. It was the idea that four generations of the smartest people in the solar system had been living and working here as they helped drag humanity into the outer planets almost through sheer force of will. Amos
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Why do I put up with your shit?" "Because," Amos said, starting to strip an assault rifle down to its component parts, "I'm the only one on the ship that can keep the coffee maker running."
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Kings were always the last to feel the famine.
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If life transcends death, then I will seek for you there. If not, then there too." He" --
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Ferns can be very aggressive
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Shit," Amos said. "And here I was enjoying being so absolutely thumb-up-the-ass useless." "You"
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they'd been driven to find out what was on the other side of the long trip. Driven by a need to see shores no one else had ever seen before. Show a human a closed door, and no matter how many open doors she finds, she'll be haunted by what might be behind it. A
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You dropped a hammer under thrust, and it fell to the deck. Your government slaughtered six families of ethnic Chinese prospectors, someone pinned you to the living rock of Ceres with a three-foot titanium alloy spike. Same same. "There's"
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Did the universe evolve eyes and wings and sense organs and bitter amusement at the prospect of death all the same way? "Okay,"
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It was a real book--onionskin pages bound in what might have been actual leather. Miller had seen pictures of them before; the idea of that much weight for a single megabyte of data struck him as decadent. "Detective."
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The Tachi's galley had a full kitchen and a table with room for twelve. It also had a full-size coffeepot that could brew forty cups of coffee in less than five minutes whether the ship was in zero g or under a five-g burn. Holden said a silent prayer of thanks for bloated military budgets and pressed the brew button. He had to restrain himself from stroking the stainless steel cover while it made gentle percolating noises.
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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"
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When we go, go fast. Stop for nothing. Maximum aggression wins the day here.
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So how does the Epstein drive work? Very well. Efficiently.
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Alamogordo and worked his two-year service stripping down ancient solar electricity stations from the bad old days before fusion.
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You will be personally responsible for the single deadliest screwup in the history of humankind, and I'm on a ship with Jim fucking Holden, so the bar's not low." The"
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The ship name. It's unusual. I swear, if I board one more ship named after someone's kid or the girl they left behind after that magical weekend on Titan, I'm going to start fining people for general lack of creativity." Holden"
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