Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1)
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Survivor Guilt, according to the Counseling Circle Of Hastily Downloaded Wisdom.
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I guess an experience like this is supposed to mess you up.
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Haha sweet they’re pretty young too.
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Byron, they cut the ship link. Just like they did with Copernicus.
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there are def Copernicus survivors on the Alexander.
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spider monkey.
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her death glare.
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an interface leech.
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a quick smile that’s on the opposite end of the spectrum from that death glare,
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They don’t need this girl in neurogramming, they need her in psych ops,
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She’s an actress, too.
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making mundane things seem like they were full of adventure.
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But who wants to break the dam on stuff like this in public? You write it down and put it away, then back to work.
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think about what else might really be going on.
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It was so important to me that everybody understand that what they were seeing, this romance, these feelings right there onstage—none of it was real.
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knew it mattered, getting behind the pretend, the masks, and finding out what was really happening.
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We’d just watched the Alexander murder over two thousand civilians for no good reason, what the hell was Prophet supposed to do?
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Prophet and Dreadnought wanted to tell it straight. Wouldn’t keep quiet about it.
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Dorian
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Prophet was just supposed to X-out a bunch of civis because the computer says so?
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Order must have come from Torrence. The Ai can’t make calls like that Mason, E, LT 2nd: Then why the ████ didn’t Torrence transmit the order?
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Prophet wasn’t going to waste 9 shuttles of civis without...
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Dorian
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IT FLARES LIKE SUNLIGHT OFF THE OCEAN’S SURFACE. LIKE ALPHANUMERIC WATERFALLS IN AN IRIS OF PUREST BLUE.
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ALMOST EVERY PARTICLE IN THE UNIVERSE WAS ONCE PART OF A STAR.
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THE REMNANTS OF STELLAR ALCHEMY, STIRRING INTO LIFE, THEN CONSCIOUSNESS.
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The AI storing them—AIDAN, its name was AIDAN—took a lot of hits. I’m not sure if it was crazy. What it did to these docs sure was. But you’ll be able to understand.
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BeiTech did this. BeiTech killed my mother, Helena Grant.
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Killed my—killed Ezra. Ezra Mason.
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The Hypatia
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Shuttle Bay 1B.
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“This shot will combat the radiation poisoning.
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That’s handy
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This doesn’t look much like victory.
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hygiene crews
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But give me enough time and I’ll buy another. And another. Money buys an awful lot, you know. And we have an awful lot of money.
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You people made Phobos
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It’s been eight days since Acting Captain Syra Boll heard from her crew
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Eight days since she made an unthinkably foolish choice—since she made the only choice she could live with—and turned the Hypatia around.
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Nice!
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Seven days since the Hypatia swept the debris fields and found the impossible. Kady Grant,
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Sergeant K...
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It really didn’t look like victory.