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James S.A. Corey _ Babylon's Ashes
Taking the things that other people thought they deserved to keep was dangerous work.
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James S.A. Corey _ Babylon's Ashes
Shit," Amos said. "And here I was enjoying being so absolutely thumb-up-the-ass useless." "You
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James S.A. Corey _ Babylon's Ashes
Kings were always the last to feel the famine.
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James S.A. Corey _ Babylon's Ashes
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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James S.A. Corey _ Babylon's Ashes
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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James S.A. Corey _ Babylon's Ashes
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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James S.A. Corey _ Babylon's Ashes
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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James S.A. Corey _ Babylon's Ashes
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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James S.A. Corey _ Babylon's Ashes
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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James S.A. Corey _ Babylon's Ashes
Husband and wife seems like a less interesting and committed relationship than Holden and Naomi
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James S.A. Corey _ Babylon's Ashes
In the middle column, the colony ships she and her fleet had taken: the Bedyadat Jadida, out of Luna. The John Galt and the Mark Watney, out of Mars. The
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James S.A. Corey _ Babylon's Ashes
But we don't run on facts. We run on stories about things. About people."
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