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Holloway’s internal sensible person
Haha
a voice in his head that was not his own, but belonged to someone he used to know quite well.
Haha - intelligence?
“Congratulations, you are now officially as smart as a dog,”
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his own strain of avarice didn’t run in that direction. Breeding pets was more work than he would want.
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Haha - thought so.
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beanstalk construction.
up the beanstalk
The ships represented the massive and inequitable transfer of raw material wealth from Zara XXIII to Earth—or would, if there were any native sapient species on the planet to recognize the inequity.
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ZaraCorp staffed three scientists at Zara XXIII, primarily to satisfy CEPA E & E charter requirements.
The xenolinguist, paid but useless, spent his time reading detective novels and drinking.
Haha - a dreamjob
Isabel Wangai
her daily recommended allowance of canine face licking.
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“I’m admitting I screwed up,” Holloway said. “You just can’t say how,” Isabel said. “That’s actually an important part of any apology, Jack.”
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Anyway, if I were that motivated by money, I wouldn’t be a biologist.
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watching ZaraCorp take that hill you named after me and strip every single living thing off it because there might be some of these in it”—
sort of killed the attraction for me.”
“That was a joke,” Holloway said. “Really,” Isabel said, with that flatness in her voice Holloway had learned to dread, and ultimately, to hide from. “You’ve told better ones.”
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Chen
“Well, life is like that sometimes,” Isabel said. “We learn things too late, and then we don’t get to use them.”
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even I can see that when you name a hill for your girlfriend, and then you have that hill strip-mined down to rubble, it’s not a good sign for the relationship.”
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“So big that if I didn’t happen to be your ZaraCorp handler, the only way I’d even get to be near this meeting is if I was told to bring in some sandwiches,” Bourne said.
“It was a joke,” Holloway said. “You’ve told better ones,” Bourne said,
Alan Irvine,
“Kenyan,” Holloway said. “By way of Oxford.”
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Wheaton Aubrey
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beakish Aubrey nose, which Holloway guessed had never once been punched in for its owner being a smug dick.
Haha. It’s a Backpfeifengesicht nose.
Johan Gruber,
Janice Meyer,
Vincent D’Abo,
Mount Isabel.
BlueSky,
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He’d been reading survey reports on it before he went to sleep. Now someone was calling him on it.
Like an iPad - a futuristic device from the pov of 2011; 1st Gen iPad was released in April 2010.
Isabel
And somewhat less importantly, it could be good for me. I’d like to think that still means something to you.”
That is the question on which Jack’s likability entirely depends.
the biological and ecological impact is going to be huge.
Don’t make any more major biological discoveries until then, okay?”
Haha - guess who’s coming to dinner!
out of the foliage four forms emerged, small, furry, catlike.
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