Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection

by James S.A. Corey

It was like his parents had suddenly realized he wouldn’t be there forever, and now their love was like a police state; he couldn’t escape it.

“You’re a tough guy, but I’m a nightmare wrapped in the apocalypse.

and so Erich and Lydia reached the odd peace of roommates, intimate in all things and nothing.

There is nothing so destructive and also so easy to overlook as a bad idea.

Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, but it is the mother of any number of other things as well: sacrifice and monstrosity and metamorphosis. Necessity is the mother of all necessary things, to coin a tautology.

A boy from the original scientific expedition had been struck and killed.

Xan