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Author: James S.A. Corey
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  1. James S.A. Corey _ Leviathan Wakes

    I don't believe war ever does. It's a madness that's in our nature. Sometimes it recurs; sometimes it subsides." "Sounds like a disease." "The herpes simplex of the species?
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  2. James S.A. Corey _ Leviathan Wakes

    The abyss above him shone with unflickering stars. One of the dots of light was Earth. He didn't know which one.
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  3. James S.A. Corey _ Nemesis Games

    The pleasantries were just ritual, but ritual was important. In Amos' experience the more dangerous any two people were, the more carefully polite their social interactions tended to be. The loud, blustering ones were trying to get the other guy to back down. They wanted to stay out of a fight. The quiet ones were figuring out how to win it.
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  4. James S.A. Corey _ Cibola Burn

    And ... and what is civilisation if it isn't people talking to each other over a goddamned beer?
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  5. James S.A. Corey _ Caliban's War

    Point of clarification," Alex said, raising his hand. "We have an apocalypse comin'? Was that a thing we knew about?" "Venus," Avasarala said. "Oh. That apocalypse," Alex said, lowering his hand. "Right.
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  6. James S.A. Corey _ Caliban's War

    It's a simple complex system. That's the technical name for it. Because it's simple, it's prone to cascades, and because it's complex, you can't predict what's going to fail. Or how. It's computationally impossible.
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  7. James S.A. Corey _ Nemesis Games

    Alex's experience of real family-of blood relations-was more like having a lot of people who had all wound up on the same mailing list without knowing quite why they signed up for it.
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  8. James S.A. Corey _ Abaddon's Gate

    Theological anthropology is a lot simpler when humans are the only ones with souls.
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  9. James S.A. Corey _ Cibola Burn

    What happened?" she asked."The landing pad blew up.""Oh," she said. And then, "do they do that?""No. No, they really don't.
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  10. James S.A. Corey _ Caliban's War

    She'd stopped looking tired a while ago and had moved on to whatever tired turns into when it became a lifestyle.
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  11. James S.A. Corey _ Leviathan Wakes

    GOODY. MY SPLEEN IS COLLAPSING. HURRY UP.
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  12. James S.A. Corey _ Cibola Burn

    And the moral high ground is a lovely place," Marwick said, as if he were agreeing. "It won't stop a missile, though.
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