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  1. James S.A. Corey _ Leviathan Wakes

    But it is only a machine. It doesn't think. It follows instructions. If we learn how to alter that programming, then we become the architects of that change.
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  2. James S.A. Corey _ Leviathan Wakes

    You've worked with George R. R. Martin a lot in the past. What kind of advice did he have for this project? Yes, I've done a number of projects with him in one incarnation or another. In this case, he was mostly just encouraging. He likes old-fashioned space opera, and he followed my progress on the book with great interest. He was also the first to read the final version. He was very complimentary. He said at one point that it was the best book about vomit zombies he'd ever read. That was nice.
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  3. James S.A. Corey _ Leviathan Wakes

    Let me get this straight," he said. "You'll give me all the kingdoms of the Earth if I just bow down and do one act of worship for you?" Dresden
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  4. James S.A. Corey _ Leviathan Wakes

    The lights shifted into and out of his field of view. He wondered if that was what it would be like to look at stars. He'd never looked up at a sky. The thought inspired a certain vertigo. A sense of terror of the infinite that was almost pleasant. "There
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  5. James S.A. Corey _ Leviathan Wakes

    Holden was imagining what several hundred rounds of Teflon-coated tungsten steel going five thousand meters per second would do to human bodies when Alex threw down the throttle and a roomful of elephants swan dived onto his chest.
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  6. James S.A. Corey _ Leviathan Wakes

    So how does the Epstein drive work? Very well. Efficiently.
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  7. James S.A. Corey _ Leviathan Wakes

    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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  8. James S.A. Corey _ Leviathan Wakes

    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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  9. James S.A. Corey _ Leviathan Wakes

    There had to be a moment, some decision that you made, and before it, you were one person, and after it, someone else.
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  10. James S.A. Corey _ Leviathan Wakes

    It was funny, he thought, how the ruins of the past shaped everything that came after.
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  11. James S.A. Corey _ Leviathan Wakes

    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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  12. James S.A. Corey _ Leviathan Wakes

    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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