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  1. Neal Stephenson _ Seveneves

    people with hopes were apt to become profligate in spending resources and taking risks. Which
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  2. Neal Stephenson _ Seveneves

    The ports were individually numbered with glowing digits, and annotated, in the mixture of Latin and Cyrillic used throughout the ring, as to their purposes: TRANZIT IMMIGRAШON MILITARY CURVEY CPEЦ
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  3. Neal Stephenson _ Seveneves

    When he came to his senses, he was aware that a large number of telephones were singing their little electronic songs. Including his. The birth cry of a new age.
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  4. Neal Stephenson _ Seveneves

    Not as romantic as a dozen roses," she countered. "Still," he said, "what is it that a man is trying to say with a dozen roses? Simply that he is thinking of you." Shortly
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  5. Neal Stephenson _ Seveneves

    Ammonia worked better, but it was dangerous, and you couldn't easily get more of it in space. If the Cloud Ark survived, it would survive on a water-based economy. A hundred years from now everything in space would be cooled by circulating water systems. But for now they had to keep the ammonia-based equipment running as well. Further
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  6. Neal Stephenson _ Seveneves

    The qualifications for being a Scout seemed to be a shocking level of physical endurance, a complete disregard for mortal danger, and some knowledge of how to exist in a space suit. All of them were Russian. There
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  7. Neal Stephenson _ Seveneves

    She was going to get to stay alive. At the same time, she and the others got very little information from the planet, and had to piece things together from a jumble of clues. She'd compared notes on this with Ivy, who had confirmed that even she had little to go on, and what she did hear contradicted itself from hour to hour. It had all become Kremlinology. Back in the heyday of the Soviet Union, the only way for Westerners to guess what was going on there was to look at the lineup of dignitaries on Lenin's Tomb in the May Day parade, and riddle it out from the seating chart and who shook hands with whom. Now Dinah was doing the same thing with the three faces on the screen.
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  8. Neal Stephenson _ Seveneves

    I remember asking him, 'Why did you print that stuff out, why not use thumb drives like everyone else,' and he said, 'Owning your own space company brings some perks,' " Dinah said. She found them after a few minutes' rummaging in storage bins: half a dozen three-ring binder, volumes 1 through 6 of the Arjuna Expeditions Employee Manual. The entire stack was a foot thick. Doob whistled. "Given the cost per pound of launching stuff into space, this is probably worth more than the Gutenberg Bible that showed up last week.
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  9. Neal Stephenson _ Seveneves

    I don't think a Drop Top can can reach an orbit this high, can it?" Dinah asked. "Sean's coming alone. It's some kind of special one-passenger model -- the extra mass is being used for propellant." "And then what? He just goes to an airlock and knocks on the door?" "Basically, yes," Larz said. "What will they do? Tell him to go away?
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  10. Neal Stephenson _ Seveneves

    added. Apparently a mere two-cab caravan was not enough to trigger Ariane's anxieties, and so the one carrying
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  11. Neal Stephenson _ Seveneves

    When he came to his senses, he was aware that a large number of telephones were singing their little electronic songs. Including his. The birth cry of a new age. IVY
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  12. Neal Stephenson _ Seveneves

    The mind couldn't think about the End of the World all the time. It needed the occasional break, a romp through the trivial. Because it was through trivia that the mind was anchored in reality {…}
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