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  1. James S.A. Corey _ Cibola Burn

    The closest analogy, the one her brain reached for and rejected and reached for again, was splashing into a lake. It was cold, but not cold. There was a smell, rich and loamy. The smell of growth and decay. She was aware of her body, the skin, the sinew, the curl of her gut. She was aware of the nerves that were firing in her brain as she became aware of the nerves firing in her brain. She unmade herself and watched herself being unmade. All the bacteria on her skin and in her blood, the virii in her tissues. The woman who had been Elvi Okoye became a landscape. A world. She fell farther in.
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  2. James S.A. Corey _ Cibola Burn

    Or was that fatalism another good move in design space? Did the universe evolve eyes and wings and sense organs and bitter amusement at the prospect of death all the same way?
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  3. James S.A. Corey _ Cibola Burn

    I don't see anything," Miller said. "What's it look like?""The eye of an angry God?" Elvi said."Oh," Miller said. The heavy plates of his robotic body clicked and hissed against each other as he shifted. "Yeah, well that's probably it, then. Good work.
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  4. James S.A. Corey _ Cibola Burn

    It throbbed with an inhuman power, tidal and deep and painful. Look at this too long, Elvi thought, and I will lose my mind in it. She took a step toward it, feeling the structures in the blackness respond to her. She felt as if she could see the spaces between molecules in the air, like atoms themselves had become a thin fog, and for the first time she could see the true shape of reality looming up just beyond her reach.
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  5. James S.A. Corey _ Cibola Burn

    All of nature was a record of crisis and destruction and adaptation and flourishing and being knocked back down again. What had happened on New Terra was singular and concrete, but the pattern it was part of seemed to apply everywhere and maybe always.
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  6. James S.A. Corey _ Cibola Burn

    Your fancy alien train is broken?""My fancy alien material transfer system has been sitting unused for over a billion years and half the planet just exploded. Your ship was built less than a decade ago and you can barely keep the coffee pot running.""You are a sad, bitter little man.
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  7. James S.A. Corey _ Cibola Burn

    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
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  8. James S.A. Corey _ Cibola Burn

    The fact had become as invisible to him as someone on Earth thinking about being held to a spinning celestial object by nothing more than mass, shielded from the fusion reaction of the sun by only distance and air.
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  9. James S.A. Corey _ Cibola Burn

    Dammit," Holden said after he'd killed the connection. "You ever get the sense that the universe is out to get you?" "Sometimes I get the sense that the universe is out to get you," Amos said with a grin. "It's fun to watch.
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  10. James S.A. Corey _ Cibola Burn

    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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  11. James S.A. Corey _ Cibola Burn

    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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  12. James S.A. Corey _ Cibola Burn

    The usual state of nature is recovering from the last disaster,
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